http delete

[Corticus]

Hi all,

I'm trying to submit an HTTP DELETE.
My POST is working and my GET is working fine.

Here's what I have for the DELETE which is not working:

Public Function deleteHTTP(ByVal URL, message) As String

    Dim HTTPobj As WinHttp.WinHttpRequest

    Set HTTPobj = New WinHttp.WinHttpRequest
    
    With HTTPobj
        .Open "DELETE", URL
        .send
    End With

    deleteHTTP = HTTPobj.responseText

End Function

It is possible that my code is ok, and that the server is not handling properly, but that's less likely considering I've never done a DELETE from VBA.

For what it's worth, the stderrout is this:
servlet.PageNotFound:183 - Request method 'DELETE' not supported

I think the problem is that I used my POST code and just changed POST to DELETE and removed the message body. That's probably not going to hack it, I suspect.

Thanks.

 

[Kyle123]

Going on the response, my money would be on the server not supporting the Delete verb. Are you sure it definitely does? - the code looks fine

 

[Corticus]

I talked to the developer writing the backend services, he thinks it is on his end.
Thanks for taking a look!

 

[Corticus]

I noticed I am getting different messages in stderrout depending on how I try to delete.
That makes me think I may be doing something wrong.

Which one of these should I be using?

Public Function deleteHTTP1(ByVal URL) As String

    Dim HTTPobj As WinHttp.WinHttpRequest

    Set HTTPobj = New WinHttp.WinHttpRequest
    
    With HTTPobj
        .Open "DELETE", URL
        .send
    End With

    deleteHTTP1 = HTTPobj.responseText

End Function

or

Public Function deleteHTTP2(ByVal URL) As String

    Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
    objHTTP.Open "DELETE", URL, False
    objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)"
    objHTTP.send

    Response = objHTTP.responseText

    deleteHTTP2 = Response

End Function

It could be "none of the above".

 

[Corticus]

Actually - error is the same. Sorry.
I am curious which to use though.
Thx.