@at88mph I would like to understand better your context of use for when the method "PUT" is prefered vs the supported method by the web form. I would like to know if the intend is to support or not the fallback form submission.
For example: Let say the postback plugin are not working and the native HTML form is submitted, is the method "POST" or "GET" set on the HTML form is going to conflict with your use case? Like preventing the transaction.

For a second review reference:

• https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-19.html#name-put
• https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods/http-methods.xhtml
• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#attr-fs-method

Hi @duboisp,

In my use case, I'm submitting a form to create a new resource. Our web service API that is receiving the request requires the method to be a PUT. A POST request is considered an Edit function in our web service.

If the wb-postback were to fail to load, then the request would not work, that is correct. The alternative is writing my own JavaScript to load and do the form submission, but much of that would be a duplicate of what the wb-postback would do.

Alternatively, one could also specify a DELETE request to delete a specified resource, for example.

@at88mph thanks for the clarification.

We would need to figure out a way to still provide support when the page is visited in HTML basic mode, like here: https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/wb-postback/wb-postback-en.html?wbdisable=true
We will need to explore how we are going to address this issue. For example providing implementation guidance for author like adding a link to an alternate way to do the same surrounding the web form.

So the idea would be to support the PUT request even if wb-postback is disabled? I'm not sure that's possible. Even if the method is set to PUT in the HTML <form> the method defaults back to GET. The idea would be that this provides something extra since the only other way to provide a PUT would be to have custom JavaScript.

Thanks for looking into it @duboisp .