Documentation for jquery.ajax() states that DELETE and PUT HTTP Method is not supported by all browsers

[johannes-gehrs]

I mean this:

api.jquery.com/entries/jQuery.ajax.xml

Line 144 in 26b0689

<desc>The type of request to make ("POST" or "GET"), default is "GET". <strong>Note:</strong> Other HTTP request methods, such as PUT and DELETE, can also be used here, but they are not supported by all browsers.</desc>

I think this will throw people off of using DELETE and PUT when in fact it seems to be supported by all major browsers, even IE 6.

Either the sentence should be removed or it should be more specific. See these discussions on stack overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1757187/which-browsers-dont-support-a-http-delete-with-jquery-ajax
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/165779/are-the-put-delete-head-etc-methods-available-in-most-web-browsers

[gnarf]

cc @jaubourg - Are you more in tune with the reason for this warning?

[jaubourg]

Off the top of my head I don't remember but it's most probably related to older versions (of Opera most likely) that we don't support anymore.

[johannes-gehrs]

@gnarf What do you think would be the best course of action to take in this matter?

[scottgonzalez]

A quick Google search shows that there are indeed several users who have had problems with DELETE and PUT in oldIE.

[mgol]

oldIE standard XHR doesn't support PATCH but ActiveX one does and we've recently (for 1.11) switched to use the ActiveX XHR in such cases.

[johannes-gehrs]

My understanding of this discussion is that there is no clear indication that PUT or DELETE is not supported by any browser supported by jQuery. Therefore I suggest that you remove the aforementioned warning from the documentation.

[JonathanThiyagarajan]

$.ajax makes this put and delete to work

[JudyLipinski]

Any update on this? I found the documentation to be very confusing.

[dmethvin]

AFAIK as @jaubourg says it must be for an older browser we no longer support. You can file a pull request here to remove the sentence.

[slauyama]

If delete is in fact supported by $.ajax, I think it should be mentioned in the documentation. For a minute I thought that $.ajax did not support the delete method because it only mentioned put, post, and get.

[AurelioDeRosa]

e.g. stands for "for example", so we don't exclude the other methods and we mention only some of them. The issue was fixed with commit 1af30ac.