POST request method not supported

Question

According to the Spring Documentation here :

Although HTTP defines these four methods, HTML only supports two: GET and POST. Fortunately, there are two possible solutions: you can use JavaScript to execute PUT or DELETE, or simply make POST using the "real" method as an additional parameter (modeled as a hidden input field in an HTML form).

They did the latter and can be achieved using the following Spring MVC form tag:

<form:form method="delete"> <input type="submit" value="Delete"/> </form:form> 

The problem is that when I click "Delete", my page produces the following error:

 HTTP Status 405 - Request method 'POST' not supported 

I changed the debug level of org.springframework.web for debugging and found the following message:

 DEBUG AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver - Resolving exception from handler [foo.bar.MessageForm@da9246]: org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'POST' not supported 

I used RestClient with the DELETE method, and the method is called as expected. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

You need to configure HiddenHttpMethodFilter in your web.xml

Details can be found here :