Re: [jetty-users] How is the Request Body handled by the Jetty Server fo

[Peter Boughton <jetty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.