[MarkLogic Dev General] DELETE method not allowed on HTTP Server?

[Steve Mallen]

Hi folks,

I've been trying to implement a simple REST-style API using the Mark 
Logic HTTP server and an XQuery controller.  This has been going fairly 
well; but I've hit a bit of a brick wall with the DELETE method:

I have my HTTP server set up with authentication: "application-level" 
and default user: "admin", in order to effectively turn off security 
(I'm just doing some prototypying here).

When I submit a DELETE request to the server I get a "500 Internal 
Server Error" response code, with this message:

    SEC-DEFAULTUSERDNE: Default user does not exist: sec:user-id = 
7561169777825101503

GET and POST requests are working fine, by the way.  I haven't tried the 
PUT method yet.

To try and get around this, I turned security on by setting 
authentication to "basic", and sending the username and password 
credentials to the server.  I then get:

    403 Forbidden

There is no clue as to why the request has been denied.  Does this 
basically mean that the "DELETE" method isn't supported?  I tried to 
test this assumption by doing an "OPTIONS" request, which predictably 
gave me:

    405 Method Not Allowed

Any help or clues on this would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
-Steve