Does ColdFusion 11 support body content for HTTP DELETE verb

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;