As you may have guessed, an HTTP DELETE request is used to remove resources from some web service.
Since cURL is the de facto method for making HTTP requests in PHP, we will once again use it for our DELETE request:
<?php $url = 'http://www.example.com/request.php'; $postvals = 'firstName=John&lastName=Smith'; $ch = curl_init($url); $options = array( CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'DELETE', CURLOPT_URL => $url, CURLOPT_POST => 1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postvals, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1, CURLOPT_HEADER => 0, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1 ); curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); ?>
In this case, we will send along some POST values to denote the
resource to be deleted, so this request
will very much mimic a PUT or POST. We simply set the CURLOPT_
CUSTOMREQUEST
to
DELETE
.
As with our PUT request, in Python we will use urllib2
:
import urllib import urllib2 url = 'http://www.example.com/request.py?id=1234' request = urllib2.Request(url) request.get_method = lambda : 'DELETE' f = urllib2.urlopen(request) response = f.read()
Our Python request will follow a pattern similar to our PUT
request—we will need to manually set the get_method
, this time to DELETE
. We then make our request with urlopen(...)
and read back the server
response.
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