Sure you can, although you need to do it via Ajax. The W3C FORM element is specified with only 'get' and 'post' as permissible values for 'method', which I can

Sure you can, although you need to do it via Ajax. The W3C FORM element is specified with only 'get' and 'post' as permissible values for 'method', which I can only regard as a screwup on W3C's part, but I know of no similar restriction on the methods available to an XMLHttpRequest object; indeed at least one extremely well-regarded Stack Overflow answer [1] confirms that PUT and DELETE work as expected as of five years ago. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/166501/1713079 http://stackoverflow.com/a/166501/1713079