403 Access denied for DELETE Request .Net Web Api Rest Service on Azure

Question

I'm quite unsure of the reason for this. On localhost all request types work.

But when I publish to a Windows Azure Shared Site GET, POST & PUT requests work and DELETE requests Fail.

Right after creating the Data I cannot delete it, this happens over my local ISP and works from my cell phones internet.

I've tried

1. ipconfig /flushdns
2. Changing to Google and OpenDNS
3. Adding a default document in web.config for Mvc - Views/Home/Index.cshtml
4. Adding - runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"

This is all I get back.

HTTP/1.1 403 Access Denied
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:15:44 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Language: en
Content-Length: 249

Answer 1

You probably just need to enable the DELETE verb in your web.config.

(source: http://microsoftazurewebsitescheatsheet.info/#enable-http-verbs)

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="ExtensionlessUrl-Integrated-4.0" />
      <add name="ExtensionlessUrl-Integrated-4.0"
           path="*."
           verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,DELETE,PUT"
           type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler"
           preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>