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diff --git a/docs/topics/browserhacks.md b/docs/topics/browserhacks.md deleted file mode 100644 index 96cb1388..00000000 --- a/docs/topics/browserhacks.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -# Browser hacks - -> "There are two noncontroversial uses for overloaded POST. The first is to *simulate* HTTP's uniform interface for clients like web browsers that don't support PUT or DELETE" -> -> — [RESTful Web Services](1), Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby. - -## Browser based PUT, DELETE, etc... - -**TODO: Preamble.** Note that this is the same strategy as is used in [Ruby on Rails](2). - -For example, given the following form: - - <form action="/news-items/5" method="POST"> - <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE"> - </form> - -`request.method` would return `"DELETE"`. - -## Browser based submission of non-form content - -Browser-based submission of content types other than form are supported by using form fields named `_content` and `_content_type`: - -For example, given the following form: - - <form action="/news-items/5" method="PUT"> - <input type="hidden" name="_content_type" value="application/json"> - <input name="_content" value="{'count': 1}"> - </form> - -`request.content_type` would return `"application/json"`, and `request.content` would return `"{'count': 1}"` - -## URL based accept headers - -## URL based format suffixes - -## Doesn't HTML5 support PUT and DELETE forms? - -Nope. It was at one point intended to support `PUT` and `DELETE` forms, but was later [dropped from the spec](3). There remains [ongoing discussion](4) about adding support for `PUT` and `DELETE`, as well as how to support content types other than form-encoded data. - -[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Restful-Web-Services-Leonard-Richardson/dp/0596529260 -[2]: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#how-do-forms-with-put-or-delete-methods-work -[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#changes-2010-06-24 -[4]: http://amundsen.com/examples/put-delete-forms/ |