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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:24:36+00:00

I’m developing a Python web app as a learning exercise, and I am looking

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I’m developing a Python web app as a learning exercise, and I am looking into making my app RESTful.

To that end, I want to be able to handle various types of HTTP actions/verbs where they are applicable. For example, if widget with id 12 is represented with the URI http://domain/widget/12, and I want to give the end user the ability to delete this widget, they should be able to make an HTTP DELETE request against /widget/12.

However, HTML forms only support GET and POST as far as I know, so how would I go about making an HTTP request with the ‘less popular’ HTTP actions, such as DELETE?

Let’s say that on the widget 12’s view page (returned by HTTP GET), I want to include a form with just a single submit button to delete that widget. For example:

<form action='/widget/12' method='DELETE'> <input type='submit' value='Delete Me!' /> </form>

However, it’s already established that HTML forms do not support DELETE for the method attribute. So what is the RESTful way of executing a DELETE request from the client in this situation?

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  1. From a browser, you will need to use XmlHttpRequest (Ajax) for the scenario you are describing. If your client, or server doesn’t support the additional methods, it’s become common to use the custom X-HTTP-Method-Override header to specify the action.

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