From 8bdc46ea74155081c4d043a90f171de2c0c9e9fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mateo-berri <277851410+mateo-berri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:55:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(responses): omit empty JSON body on DELETE response API
 requests

Azure OpenAI's responses-API DELETE endpoint rejects requests that carry
a JSON body with: "Unexpected body with size 2. This API method does
not accept a request body.". The default LiteLLMAiohttpTransport silently
elides empty-dict bodies on DELETE so this was masked, but the pure-httpx
transport (used when DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT=True or under vcrpy/respx
patching) sends literal '{}' (2 bytes), which Azure rejects.

Only attach json= when the provider's transform actually returned a
non-empty dict; otherwise issue a bodyless DELETE.
---
 litellm/llms/custom_httpx/llm_http_handler.py | 26 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/llm_http_handler.py b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/llm_http_handler.py
index a34b73b531..19939e6d1e 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/llm_http_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/llm_http_handler.py
@@ -2536,9 +2536,16 @@ class BaseLLMHTTPHandler:
         )
 
         try:
-            response = await async_httpx_client.delete(
-                url=url, headers=headers, json=data, timeout=timeout
-            )
+            # Only send a JSON body when the provider supplied request data;
+            # some providers (e.g. Azure OpenAI) reject DELETE with a body.
+            delete_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {
+                "url": url,
+                "headers": headers,
+                "timeout": timeout,
+            }
+            if data:
+                delete_kwargs["json"] = data
+            response = await async_httpx_client.delete(**delete_kwargs)
 
         except Exception as e:
             raise self._handle_error(
@@ -2620,9 +2627,16 @@ class BaseLLMHTTPHandler:
         )
 
         try:
-            response = sync_httpx_client.delete(
-                url=url, headers=headers, json=data, timeout=timeout
-            )
+            # Only send a JSON body when the provider supplied request data;
+            # some providers (e.g. Azure OpenAI) reject DELETE with a body.
+            delete_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {
+                "url": url,
+                "headers": headers,
+                "timeout": timeout,
+            }
+            if data:
+                delete_kwargs["json"] = data
+            response = sync_httpx_client.delete(**delete_kwargs)
 
         except Exception as e:
             raise self._handle_error(