Given this description from RFC 2616:

The TRACE method is used to invoke a remote, application-layer loop- back of the request message. The final recipient of the request SHOULD reflect the message received back to the client as the entity-body of a 200 (OK) response.

I think it should be fairly simple to extend HTTP::Request::Common and add a TRACE method. A quick and dirty example:

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request::Common::_simple_req('TRACE', 'http:
+//localhost/'));
if ($res->is_success) {
  print "content is ", $res->content;
} else {
  print '$res is ', $res->message, "\n";
}
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I haven't a clue about DELETE method, mostly because it isn't supported natively by Apache and I don't know how to test it. Any suggestions from other monks?

Ciao, Valerio