You can always define your own HTTP methods and use other verbs. Apache Script directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script http://h

You can always define your own HTTP methods and use other verbs. Apache Script directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script Depending on browser and javascript framework support (guh, as always), you can then use whatever method you want in Ajax calls (first argument to XMLHttpRequest.open, or jquery's $.ajax.type).