From 06723fdf204e41d685e1abbe0096f768390a0e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muhan Zou <muhan0128@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:11:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add 'delete' alias for 'del', reduce ternary checking in
 the meantime

---
 README.md              |  8 ++++++++
 index.js               |  8 ++++----
 tests/test-defaults.js | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 64c43e742..cdffb5ce7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -888,6 +888,14 @@ Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "HEAD"`.
 request.head(url)
 ```
 
+### request.delete
+
+Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "DELETE"`.
+
+```js
+request.delete(url)
+```
+
 ### request.del
 
 Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "DELETE"`.
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 4d0c748da..f2d710cea 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function request (uri, options, callback) {
 }
 
 function verbFunc (verb) {
-  var method = verb === 'del' ? 'DELETE' : verb.toUpperCase()
+  var method = verb.toUpperCase()
   return function (uri, options, callback) {
     var params = initParams(uri, options, callback)
     params.method = method
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ request.head = verbFunc('head')
 request.post = verbFunc('post')
 request.put = verbFunc('put')
 request.patch = verbFunc('patch')
-request.del = verbFunc('del')
+request.del = request.delete = verbFunc('delete')
 
 request.jar = function (store) {
   return cookies.jar(store)
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function wrapRequestMethod (method, options, requester, verb) {
     target.pool = params.pool || options.pool
 
     if (verb) {
-      target.method = (verb === 'del' ? 'DELETE' : verb.toUpperCase())
+      target.method = verb.toUpperCase()
     }
 
     if (isFunction(requester)) {
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ request.defaults = function (options, requester) {
 
   var defaults      = wrapRequestMethod(self, options, requester)
 
-  var verbs = ['get', 'head', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'del']
+  var verbs = ['get', 'head', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'del', 'delete']
   verbs.forEach(function(verb) {
     defaults[verb]  = wrapRequestMethod(self[verb], options, requester, verb)
   })
diff --git a/tests/test-defaults.js b/tests/test-defaults.js
index 5b58304cf..afe845e16 100644
--- a/tests/test-defaults.js
+++ b/tests/test-defaults.js
@@ -138,6 +138,17 @@ tape('del(string, function)', function(t) {
   })
 })
 
+tape('delete(string, function)', function(t) {
+  request.defaults({
+    headers: {foo: 'bar'},
+    json: true
+  }).delete(s.url + '/', function (e, r, b) {
+    t.equal(b.method, 'DELETE')
+    t.equal(b.headers.foo, 'bar')
+    t.end()
+  })
+})
+
 tape('head(object, function)', function(t) {
   request.defaults({
     headers: { foo: 'bar' }

From 865e981f2e36d79ef07a3c44f8e3470e6a7b89f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simov <simeonvelichkov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:04:17 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix support for delete method

---
 README.md | 11 ++---------
 index.js  |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cdffb5ce7..00ac89ba2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -888,20 +888,13 @@ Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "HEAD"`.
 request.head(url)
 ```
 
-### request.delete
-
-Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "DELETE"`.
-
-```js
-request.delete(url)
-```
-
-### request.del
+### request.del / request.delete
 
 Same as `request()`, but defaults to `method: "DELETE"`.
 
 ```js
 request.del(url)
+request.delete(url)
 ```
 
 ### request.get
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index f2d710cea..716938c1d 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ request.head = verbFunc('head')
 request.post = verbFunc('post')
 request.put = verbFunc('put')
 request.patch = verbFunc('patch')
-request.del = request.delete = verbFunc('delete')
+request.del = verbFunc('delete')
+request['delete'] = verbFunc('delete')
 
 request.jar = function (store) {
   return cookies.jar(store)