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Re:Substituting JavaScript with HTML by mscdex on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:54PM (#15474241)
Alternative HTTP methods (only GET and POST are supported in HTML forms).

Also, there is the setting of HTTP headers which requires JavaScript.

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Re:Substituting JavaScript with HTML by eberkund on Saturday October 14, 2017 @05:35PM (#15474442)
I just use a hidden field to handle that.

  <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PATCH">
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Re:Substituting JavaScript with HTML by abritinthebay on Saturday October 14, 2017 @09:02PM (#15475259)
That doesn’t actually handle that however (you’re just telling a server that your get/post intends something else).

The server has to support it.

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