jquery.ajax DELETE verb does not contain request body content

[BenBernanke]

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

[BenBernanke]

Tried it with 1.4 RC1 - still a problem

​http://www.groceryblueprint.com/jquerybug/Jquery14rc1DeleteBug.html

[john]

Fixed. ​http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/23492fdf9fa6f2c3b8ee85d062fed74297f3c438