POST or DEL to delete an item

Asked Feb 18 '22 at 06:00

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I saw some websites design the API by using POST to delete an item, some use DELETE with parameters to delete the item. which one is more appropriate?

POST

https://xxx/item_delete

request body

item: "ABC"
matured: "True"

or DELETE

https://xxx/item_delete/ABC

edited Feb 18 '22 at 06:29

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To be more linguistically, use `DELETE`. – Veck Hsiao Feb 18 '22 at 06:03
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/904001/why-use-http-put-and-delete-methods-instead-of-post – Veck Hsiao Feb 18 '22 at 06:03

POST or DEL to delete an item

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