/_admin/shutdown will now need a DELETE request

Documentation/Books/Manual/ReleaseNotes/UpgradingChanges30.mdpp

@@ -718,6 +718,10 @@ API:
 - `/_api/structure`: an older unfinished and unpromoted API for data format and type 
   checks, superseded by Foxx applications.
 
+!SUBSECTION Administration APIs
+
+- `/_admin/shutdown` now needs to be called with the DELETE method
+
 !SUBSECTION Handling of CORS requests
 
 It can now be controlled in detail for which origin hosts CORS (Cross-origin resource 

Documentation/DocuBlocks/Rest/Administration/JSF_get_api_initiate.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 @startDocuBlock JSF_get_api_initiate
 @brief initiates the shutdown sequence
 
-@RESTHEADER{GET /_admin/shutdown, Initiate shutdown sequence}
+@RESTHEADER{DELETE /_admin/shutdown, Initiate shutdown sequence}
 
 @RESTDESCRIPTION
 This call initiates a clean shutdown sequence.

arangod/RestHandler/RestShutdownHandler.cpp

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ bool RestShutdownHandler::isDirect() const { return true; }
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 HttpHandler::status_t RestShutdownHandler::execute() {
+  if (_request->requestType() != GeneralRequest::RequestType::DELETE_REQ) {
+    generateError(GeneralResponse::ResponseCode::METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, 405);
+    return HttpHandler::status_t(HANDLER_DONE);
+  }
+
   ApplicationServer::server->beginShutdown();
 
   try {

js/apps/system/_admin/aardvark/APP/api-docs.json

@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@
             }
         }, 
         "/_admin/shutdown": {
-            "get": {
+            "delete": {
                 "description": "\n\nThis call initiates a clean shutdown sequence.\n\n", 
                 "parameters": [], 
                 "responses": {

js/client/modules/@arangodb/testing.js

@@ -1146,9 +1146,11 @@ function shutdownArangod(arangod, options) {
   }
   if (arangod.exitStatus === undefined ||
     arangod.exitStatus.status === "RUNNING") {
+    const requestOptions = makeAuthorizationHeaders(options);
+    requestOptions.method = "DELETE";
+
     print(arangod.url + "/_admin/shutdown");
-    download(arangod.url + "/_admin/shutdown", "",
-      makeAuthorizationHeaders(options));
+    download(arangod.url + "/_admin/shutdown", "", requestOptions);
   } else {
     print("Server already dead, doing nothing.");
   }

utils/generateExamples.js

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ function main(argv) {
 
   if (startServer) {
     if (typeof(instanceInfo.exitStatus) === 'undefined') {
-      download(instanceInfo.url + "/_admin/shutdown", "");
+      download(instanceInfo.url + "/_admin/shutdown", "", {method: "DELETE"});
 
       print("Waiting for server shut down");
       count = 0;