Failing test case in 1.4a2 located at

http://www.groceryblueprint.com/jquerybug/Jquery14a2DeleteBug.html

Passing test case in 1.3.2 located at

http://www.groceryblueprint.com/jquerybug/Jquery132WorkingProperly.html

The test case is simple:

$(document).ready(function(){

var options = {

url: "/handlers/TestHandler.ashx",

data: { EnteredItem: "ThisShouldAppearInTheRequestBody" },

type: "DELETE"

};

jQuery.ajax(options);

});

The request body is blank and has no Content-Length in 1.4a2. It's populated in 1.3.2. Unless this is intended behavior, I believe this is a bug.

Wireshark network trace under 1.3.2 (note the "EnteredItem" section)

DELETE /handlers/TestHandler.ashx HTTP/1.1

Host: www.groceryblueprint.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Accept: */*

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 300

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

Referer: http://www.groceryblueprint.com/jquerybug/Jquery132WorkingProperly.html

Content-Length: 44

EnteredItem=ThisShouldAppearInTheRequestBody

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Wireshark network trace under 1.4a2

DELETE /handlers/TestHandler.ashx HTTP/1.1

Host: www.groceryblueprint.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Accept: */*

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 300

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

Referer: http://www.groceryblueprint.com/jquerybug/Jquery14a2DeleteBug.html

Pragma: no-cache

Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found