Programmatic way to see if client browser supports PUT / DELETE methods

Question

Is there a way to see if a client browser supports PUT or SEARCH methods for usage with JQuery & AJAX requests?

• HTML5 PUT/DELETE methods not working in C

Answer 1

The common way of handling the lack of PUT and DELETE support in most browsers is to use HTTP POST tunneling. Basically you use a POST and add the real VERB to a X-HTTP-Method-Override HTTP header. On the service you check for the latter, if not found use the normal HTTP method.

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