PUT or DELETE verb in ASP.NET MVC on HTML form

Question

I have a simple user registration form, with two fields, one for username and another for the password. I have a controller called UserController which has thes

Answer 1

HTML forms (up to HTML version 4 and XHTML 1) only support GET and POST as HTTP request methods. XHTML 2.0 will support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE for forms.

A workaround for this for methods through POST by using a hidden form field which is read by the server and dispatch accordingly.

For now, you may consider using [HttpPost] now or use XmlHttpRequest to use Put verb on your request.

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UPDATE

You may use SimplyRestfulRouteHandler from MvcContrib

It quite simple, register this on RegisterRoutes

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
     SimplyRestfulRouteHandler.BuildRoutes(routes);
}

Add a hidden field like this with name _method inside your form

This would be good to go.