Hi Brian,

The Flash player only currently supports GET and POST requests (and converts any
POST request with a zero length body or any unrecognized request method to a
GET). PUT and DELETE are not supported.

For HTTPService you can get around this limitation if your HTTPService has
useProxy="true". In this case a request to build and send a proxied
PUT/DELETE/OPTIONS/etc. request is sent to FDS and the server builds and sends
the actual HTTP request and returns the response to the player. The proxy also
handles fault responses in the 500 range and returns them to the player in a
form that HTTPService can process usefully (the player doesn't handle responses
in the 500 range). We have Pete Farland to thank for all that :)

I'll log a doc bug to clarify that the extended set of methods are only
supported when using the proxy.

If you're not using the proxy, HTTPService uses a flash.net.URLLoader to make
the request directly so you're limited to what the player supports.

HTH,
Seth

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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of brian.knorr
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:33 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] httpservice method="DELETE" does not work

We are building REST apis in our Rails backend and for a delete
action it expects to recieve a HTTP DELETE request, but with Flex2
when you set the method="DELETE" on an httpservice it doesn't send
the DELETE, instead it sends a GET which causes our REST apis to
fail. The documentation for httpservice says it supports
method="DELETE".

Any advise is greatly appreciated...thanks,

Brian