PUT request are send as POST

[damienalexandre]

I use SlimerJS inside CasperJS for tests, both as an HTTP Client for API's and a browser for webpages.

When trying to run a PUT HTTP request, but the server receive a POST, here is a script to test it:

casperjs test --engine=slimerjs /full/path/to/failer.js

casper.options.verbose = true;
casper.options.logLevel = 'debug';

casper.test.begin('Look at me', 2, function(test) {

    casper.start('http://httpbin.org');

    casper.thenOpen('http://httpbin.org/put', {
            method:     'put',
            data:       "Coucou"
        }, function(data) {
            require('utils').dump(data);

            test.assertHttpStatus(200);
        }
    );

    casper.run();
});

The result will be:

"statusText": "METHOD NOT ALLOWED" The method POST is not allowed for the requested URL.

With PhantomJS I get the expected result:

"statusText": "OK"

I run CasperJS version 1.1.0-DEV and SlimerJS 0.8.2.

[laurentj]

Unfortunately, it is not possible to indicate the method to the Mozilla API called by SlimerJS... We should patch Gecko.

[laurentj]

Note that Firefox nor Chrome don't support <form method="put">, so it does not make sens to open a webpage with the "put" method. Probably it's better to do your tests with xmlHttpRequest instead.

[damienalexandre]

Too bad :( Thank for the XmlHttpRequest idea anyway.