Payload in Typhoeus Ruby Delete Request - ruby

Question

I am trying to send request payload(like in a post call) with Typhoeus Delete call.
As far as I know, The latest update to the HTTP 1.1 specification (RFC 7231) explicitly permits an entity body in a DELETE request:
A payload within a DELETE request message has no defined semantics; sending a payload body on a DELETE request might cause some existing implementations to reject the request.
I tried this code, but body/payload is not retrievable
query_body = {:bodyHash => body}
request = Typhoeus::Request.new(
url,
body: JSON.dump(query_body),
method: :delete,
ssl_verifypeer: false,
ssl_verifyhost: 0,
verbose: true,
)
request.run
response = request.response
http_status = response.code
response.total_time
response.headers
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
At the other side, It comes in an encoded way, where I can not retrieve it
Other side code is like :
def destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.json do
body_hash = params[:bodyHash]
#do stuff
render json: {msg: 'User Successfully Logged out', status: 200}, status: :ok
end
format.all {render json: {msg: 'Only JSON types are supported', status: 406}.to_json, status: :ok}
end
end

Answer 1

Let me cite the specification:
A payload within a DELETE request message has no defined semantics;
sending a payload body on a DELETE request might cause some existing
implementations to reject the request.
I would NOT say it can be called as explicit permission to send payload with DELETE request. It tells you MAY send a payload, but the processing of such a request remains entirely at the discretion of the server.
And this is what happens:
At the other side, it comes in an encoded way, where I can not retrieve it
Why can't you send your payload as a part of POST request, which is guaranteed to be processed by the server normally?

Answer 2

I finally looked at all my requests in which I was payload (POST and PUT) and observed that I was not sending headers along with this DELETE request.
It looks something like this:
query_body = {:bodyHash => body}
request = Typhoeus::Request.new(
url,
body: JSON.dump(query_body),
method: :delete,
ssl_verifypeer: false,
ssl_verifyhost: 0,
verbose: true,
headers: {'X-Requested-With' => 'XMLHttpRequest', 'Content-Type' => 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'Accept' => 'application/json, text/javascript, */*', 'enctype' => 'application/json'}
)
request.run
response = request.response
http_status = response.code
response.total_time
response.headers
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
Just adding headers to it, made it work