Perl REST: How to send DELETE request with some data (sic!)?

Question

There is a web service, that working with data in it's onDelete method; so, I need to transfer some data with my DELETE request... And I actually have completely no idea how to do that in Perl :(

Does anyone have any ideas about that? Maybe, someone met the same problem and solved it?

DELETE command is similar to GET, so you can request url like `/method?param=123` — Galimov Albert, Dec 06 '12 at 11:12
Hm... I think that's a good idea... I have data in XML format, about 200-300 bytes. If I url-encode it and send as you've said, I think it will do the trick. Thanks! — No Way, Dec 06 '12 at 11:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '12 at 12:26

The same way as you would send a POST request, I believe:

$ perl -MLWP::UserAgent -e 'LWP::UserAgent->new->delete("http://localhost:9999/resource", Content => "data");'

On the debug side of a connection:

$ socat tcp-listen:9999 -
DELETE /resource HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: TE, close
Host: localhost:9999
User-Agent: libwww-perl/6.04
Content-Length: 4

data

Perl REST: How to send DELETE request with some data (sic!)?

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