Basically, the title says it all. I've encountered this issue while reading about http requests in rails tutorial:
The other two verbs, PATCH and DELETE, are designed for updating and destroying things on the remote server. These requests are less common than GET and POST since browsers are incapable of sending them natively, but some web frameworks (including Ruby on Rails) have clever ways of making it seem like browsers are issuing such requests.
Why is there a need to hack around to issue, for example, a PATCH request? Why aren't browsers able to natively perform such kind of things? Am I missing something?
I've been searching around for quite a while, but couldn't come up with a clear answer to these questions. Thank you in advance.
