Thank you Peter. Could you please point me to a reference or example code
where the HTTP POST method has been overridden using X-HTTP-Method-Override
header ? Shall need this for intermediary proxies/firewalls.

Thanks and Regards,
Sonali

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 3:40 AM Peter Boughton <[email protected]>
wrote:

> With regards to the intermediary issue Joakim mentioned, a non-standard
> but common solution is to send a POST with an X-HTTP-Method-Override
> header.
>
> When the header is present, its value is simply used instead of the
> request method, the specifics of which depend on your webapp's request
> processing logic (i.e. this isn't a Jetty feature; it requires code to
> be written, but hopefully only two lines in a single location).
>
> Obviously this is only feasible when you can alter/instruct the client
> to send the request in this way, but it can help when you have an API
> used by developers stuck behind restrictive corporate firewalls.
>
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