I know this a similar issue has been closed, but I think it should be added. When I try to set a request body on a delete (array of JSON objects), it is put in the URL as a request params, instead of the request body.

Maybe a custom property could be added to $resource (under "options", say "enableDeleteRequestBody" in addition to already supported "stripTrailingSlashes"), with a warning in the doc that states that this is not the officially Spec-compliant use of a DELETE (use at your own risk).

But I would really like to use it.

It would allow for batch deletes of multiple, non-consecutive objects that represent, say, rows in a database. specifying those rowIds as, say, query string params in the URL, or request headers, is messy. Apache Jetty server is definitely accepting my DELETE body request that I send from POSTman.