inets: Add DELETE Body to client

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/inets/src/http_client/httpc_request.erl b/lib/inets/src/http_client/httpc_request.erl
index 5c2d31ee57..8fcfbc30c0 100644
--- a/lib/inets/src/http_client/httpc_request.erl
+++ b/lib/inets/src/http_client/httpc_request.erl
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@ is_client_closing(Headers) ->
 post_data(Method, Headers, {ContentType, Body}, HeadersAsIs)
     when (Method =:= post)
     orelse (Method =:= put)
-    orelse (Method =:= patch) ->
+    orelse (Method =:= patch)
+    orelse (Method =:= delete) ->
 
     NewBody = case Headers#http_request_h.expect of
           "100-continue" ->
diff --git a/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl b/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
index 93b96e101f..f9b3aa5b59 100644
--- a/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ real_requests()->
      head,
      get,
      post,
+     delete,
      post_stream,
      patch,
      async,
@@ -256,6 +257,29 @@ post(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
     {ok, {{_,504,_}, [_ | _], []}} =
 	httpc:request(post, {URL, [{"expect","100-continue"}],
 			     "text/plain", "foobar"}, [], []).
+%%--------------------------------------------------------------------
+delete() ->
+    [{"Test http delete request against local server. We do in this case "
+     "only care about the client side of the the delete. The server "
+     "script will not actually use the delete data."}].
+delete(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
+    CGI = case test_server:os_type() of
+          {win32, _} ->
+          "/cgi-bin/cgi_echo.exe";
+          _ ->
+          "/cgi-bin/cgi_echo"
+      end,
+
+    URL  = url(group_name(Config), CGI, Config),
+    Body = lists:duplicate(100, "1"),
+
+    {ok, {{_,200,_}, [_ | _], [_ | _]}} =
+    httpc:request(delete, {URL, [{"expect","100-continue"}],
+                 "text/plain", Body}, [], []),
+
+    {ok, {{_,504,_}, [_ | _], []}} =
+    httpc:request(delete, {URL, [{"expect","100-continue"}],
+                 "text/plain", "foobar"}, [], []).
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------------------------
 patch() ->