Malformed HTTP requests on rails?

Question

Hi all,

I'm getting this occacional error from my rails app:

ActionController::MethodNotAllowed: Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed.

I think it's caused by a malformed HTTP request (in this case a DELETE request) caused by the client browser... Maybe?

The URL that triggers this action it's like:

https://domain.com/resource/id/resource/id/resource/id.js?item_id=xxx

Which is generated by a helper like:

link_to_remote('delete', :url => resource_path(:id => @resource, :item_id => xxx, :format => :js), :method => :delete)

In some remote cases this crashes, I suspect that this happens only in IE (even IE8)...

If it is the case, what would be a solution? it supossed this should work in all browsers...

What do you suggest, guys?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You can emulate a DELETE request with define the _method params to 'delete' and POST your request