HTTP PATCH support in browsers
I am designing REST endpoints for my application and i need to use PATCH for a few of the endpoints. Will all browsers that support HTTP/1.1 be able to support the PATCH ? thecoshman HTTP/1.1 did not define the PATCH method. HTTP/1.1 does leave itself open for clients and/or servers to add new methods. RFC 5789 defined the conventions for using the PATCH method. The method defined within a HTTP request is nothing more than a string. Browsers should allow JavaScript to use whatever HTTP method it wants in the XmlHttpRequest ; see this Q&A for more info. In short, any modern browser will allow