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Added support for automagic OPTIONS

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Armin Ronacher 2010-07-12 23:04:24 +02:00
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@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ If `GET` is present, `HEAD` will be added automatically for you. You
don't have to deal with that. It will also make sure that `HEAD` requests
are handled like the `HTTP RFC`_ (the document describing the HTTP
protocol) demands, so you can completely ignore that part of the HTTP
specification.
specification. Likewise as of Flask 0.6, `OPTIONS` is implemented for you
as well automatically.
You have no idea what an HTTP method is? Worry not, here quick
introduction in HTTP methods and why they matter:
@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ very common:
`DELETE`
Remove the information that the given location.
`OPTIONS`
Provides a quick way for a requesting client to figure out which
methods are supported by this URL. Starting with Flask 0.6, this
is implemented for you automatically.
Now the interesting part is that in HTML4 and XHTML1, the only methods a
form might submit to the server are `GET` and `POST`. But with JavaScript
and future HTML standards you can use other methods as well. Furthermore