Does ColdFusion 11 support body content for HTTP DELETE verb - rest

Question

The below script block on ColdFUsion 11 has GetHttpRequestData().content as hello
If I change the verb to DELETE it is empty.
So ...
Does ColdFusion not support this when making requests via cfhttp?
Is this the wrong way?
Is there a workaround?
Code:
cfhttp(method="POST", charset="utf-8", url="http://x/showrequest.cfm", result="result" ) {
cfhttpparam(name="body", type="body", value="hello");
}
writeOutput(result.filecontent);abort;

Answer 1

Work around was to use java (shiver). Im sure there are helper libs to do this more succinctly but here it is.
<cfscript>
var u = createObject("java", "java.net.URL").init("https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/#site.zoneId#/purge_cache");
var req = u.openConnection();
req.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
req.setDoOutput(true);
req.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json" );
req.setRequestProperty("X-Auth-Email", "xxxxx" );
req.setRequestProperty("X-Auth-Key", "xxxx" );
var os = req.getOutputStream();
os.write(javaCast("string",'{"files":#serializeJSON(urls)#}').getBytes("UTF-8"));
os.close();
ret = req.getResponseMessage();
var i = req.getInputStream();
var br = createObject("java", "java.io.BufferedReader").init(createObject("java", "java.io.InputStreamReader").init(i));
var sb = createObject("java", "java.lang.StringBuilder").init();
var line = br.readLine();
while(!isNull(line)){
sb.append(line);
line = br.readLine();
}
req.disconnect();
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="req.getResponseCode() = #req.getResponseCode()#">
<cfdump var="#ret#">
<cfdump var="#sb.toString()#">