Servlet does not receive PUT http method

[Sotirios Delimanolis]

I have a basic HttpServlet class acting as a FrontController. It has the doGet(), doPut(), getPost(), and doDelete() methods overridden. In my UI, I try GET, it works. I try POST, it works. If I try a PUT method through a regular html form, the Serlvet receives a GET request. I've been looking around and it seems this is a Tomcat configuration problem.

I am running Tomcat 7. Does anyone know how to overcome this?

Thanks

[Hebert Coelho]

Hello Sotirios, could you post the html code and the Servlet code?

When you post it, wrap your code with the code tag.

AAAnd, welcome to JavaRanch

[Bear Bibeault]

It has nothing at all to do with Tomcat. HTML does not support anything but GET and POST in forms. Anything else is turned into a GET.

[Sotirios Delimanolis]

Indeed.

Is there a way to make a PUT request through html then?

[Bear Bibeault]

No. But you can do so via JavaScript and Ajax.

[Sotirios Delimanolis]

Thanks.

I've read some more forum entries and because I don't want to learn javascript and ajax right now, I'm just going to do a Post request and pass a hidden parameter as the method I really want.