Do browsers delete resources with POST requests?

Question

I have found this snippet in the django codebase:

# Add support for browsers which only accept GET and POST for now.
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return self.delete(request, *args, **kwargs)

What does this mean? Do browsers delete resources with GET / POST requests? Why? Can somebody provide a rationale / history / link for why this might be so?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/165779/are-the-put-delete-head-etc-methods-available-in-most-web-browsers — Kevin Christopher Henry, Jun 27 '18 at 07:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 07:46

It's for django.views.generic.edit.DeleteView. Your code is from DeletionMixin, and DeleteView inherit this mixin for delete object.

here's self.delete() code

def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Call the delete() method on the fetched object and then redirect to the
    success URL.
    """
    self.object = self.get_object()
    success_url = self.get_success_url()
    self.object.delete()
    return HttpResponseRedirect(success_url)

You can check about DeleteView in docs (here).

Basically, DeleteView receive both get and post for deleting object. That's why

Sure, but why? Why would I want to delete an object with a POST or GET request? We have an specific DELETE method — blueFast, Jun 27 '18 at 08:19

Do browsers delete resources with POST requests?

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