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HTTP Pocket Reference
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HTTP Pocket Reference

by Clinton Wong
June 2000
Beginner to intermediate
80 pages
2h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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DELETE: Remove URL

Since PUT creates new URLs on the server, it seems appropriate to have a mechanism to delete URLs as well. The DELETE method does what you think it would do.

A client request might read:

DELETE /images/logo22.gif HTTP/1.1
Host: hypothetical.ora.com

The server responds with a success code upon success:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 14:31:51 GMT
Server: HypotheticalPublish/1.0
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 21

<h1>URL deleted.</h1>

Needless to say, any server that supports the DELETE method is likely to request authorization before carrying through with the request.

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