Re: HTTP DELETE with Squid

Pedro Ribeiro wrote:

> Try the PURGE method instead!

PURGE is a Squid-specific method to remove objects from
a Squid cache. DELETE is an HTTP/1.1 method to (re)move an
object from a web service.

> From: "Martin Schönhöfer" <mschoenhoefer@comosoft.de>
> > I try to delete a file from my remote web server with the HTTP command
> > DELETE.
> > It doesn't work at all.
> >
> > The Squid log files are telling me something about
> > "unsupported-request-method" - why?

DELETE is part of src/url.c, so Squid ought to have some basic
understanding about it. Maybe it is a origin server error due
to the fact that Squid is saying "HTTP/1.0" to the web servers
it contacts?

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