[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers Ajax in trunk

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Sat Feb 23 15:49:21 EST 2008


Eric Lemoine wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've just been reading over the Ajax.js code and have been surprised
> by the following code in OpenLayers.Ajax.request():
> 
> if (this.method != 'get' && this.method != 'post') {
>     // simulate other verbs over post
>     params['_method'] = this.method;
>     this.method = 'post';
> }
> 
> The OpenLayers Ajax code doesn't allow for other HTTP methods than GET and POST!
> 
> Does it mean that current OpenLayers (trunk) cannot work with FeatureServer?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Eric

Only via WFS, it seems. I'm interested in support for PUT and DELETE for
sure. Is anybody currently relying on this feature of Ajax.js?

Sean




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