Does anyone know why the Android engine in Ktor cl...
# ktorc
christian.steffensen
06/16/2025, 10:41 AMDoes anyone know why the Android engine in Ktor client doesn’t support PATCH? It works with OkHttp engine
It doesn’t even make the call, it just fails with:
REQUEST failed with exception: java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: PATCHchristian.steffensen
06/16/2025, 10:43 AMSeems like HttpURLConnection doesn’t support it, hmm.
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Aleksei Tirman [JB]
06/16/2025, 10:55 AMYou can try to use the X-HTTP-Method-Override header as a workaround.
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christian.steffensen
06/16/2025, 10:56 AMYes, that works, thanks 🙂 I think I’ll just switch to OkHttp though
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Cies
06/16/2025, 11:00 AMYou should be able to make up your own HTTP verbs. That's the spec.
RFC 7231 (HTTP/1.1) explicitly allows new methods:
"A client is not limited to the methods defined by this specification. When a request method is unknown, the origin server SHOULD respond with 501 (Not Implemented)."
— RFC 7231 §4.1
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