[mcav]

PUT and DELETE are standardized. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

[jwegan]

Furthermore, it looks like PUT & DELETE were never part of Webdav (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV).

[charlieok]

In that a WebDAV implementation wouldn't make use of them? I assumed that a WebDAV implemenation would use them, but the WebDAV spec doesn't need to define them because the HTTP spec it references already did...