Chris Pratt wrote:
> doPut is called whenever an HTTP PUT request is received from a browser.
> doDelete is called whenever an HTTP DELETE request is received from the
> browser. Normally put is used to transfer a file to the web server and
> delete is used to remove one. You might want to look at the HTTP spec for
> more information.
> (*Chris*)
>
To further Chris's answer a little bit:
Some browsers or development environments support the PUT command as a
mechanism to publish updated pages. An example is Netscape Composer -- when
you choose the "publish" command, you can choose to use a PUT command if your
server supports it, or use FTP transfers if it does not.
I do not know of any web browser that supports a DELETE command (although it
might make sense for something like FrontPage?). However, you can issue any
HTTP command you want from a Java client application, if you use a
URLConnection with an "http:xxxxx" URL, and then cast it to an
HttpURLConnection. Once you have done this, you can use setRequestMethod() to
choose which type of HTTP request you wish to make.
Craig McClanahan
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