How to make Apache Tomcat accept DELETE method

Question

I'm working on a project of RESTful web services, i'm using Apache Tomcat and JAX-RS.

I want to accept DELETE requests from client but whenever i send a DELETE request from Advanced REST client Chrome plugin it gives response code 403 Forbidden.

So how can i make Apche Tomcat accept DELETE request?

Answer 1

Tomcat was blocking DELETE methods for me because of my CORS filters.

I needed new filters registered in my web.xml file. Here's an example of a very permissive one:

<filter>
    <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>cors.allowed.headers</param-name>
        <param-value>Accept,Accept-Encoding,Accept-Language,Access-Control-Request-Method,Access-Control-Request-Headers,Authorization,Connection,Content-Type,Host,Origin,Referer,Token-Id,User-Agent, X-Requested-With</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>cors.allowed.origins</param-name>
        <param-value>*</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>cors.allowed.methods</param-name>
        <param-value>GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>