diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e24b64adff..f8c1966db9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Release 1.16.2 [PENDING]
   * Bugfix: when tracking HTML source positions, the closing tags for H1...H6 elements were not tracked correctly.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1987>
 
+  * Bugfix: in Jsoup.connect(), a DELETE method request did not support a request body.
+    <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1972>
+
   * Change: removed previously deprecated methods Document#normalise, Element#forEach(org.jsoup.helper.Consumer<>),
     Node#forEach(org.jsoup.helper.Consumer<>), and the org.jsoup.helper.Consumer interface; the latter being a
     previously required compatibility shim prior to Android's de-sugaring support.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Connection.java b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Connection.java
index ef64faa431..c6afd7f469 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Connection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Connection.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public interface Connection {
      * GET and POST http methods.
      */
     enum Method {
-        GET(false), POST(true), PUT(true), DELETE(false), PATCH(true), HEAD(false), OPTIONS(false), TRACE(false);
+        GET(false), POST(true), PUT(true), DELETE(true), PATCH(true), HEAD(false), OPTIONS(false), TRACE(false);
 
         private final boolean hasBody;
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ConnectTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ConnectTest.java
index 07f9d2ebc2..f02840a0cb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ConnectTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ConnectTest.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import org.jsoup.Connection;
 import org.jsoup.HttpStatusException;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
+import org.jsoup.Connection.Method;
 import org.jsoup.helper.DataUtil;
 import org.jsoup.helper.W3CDom;
 import org.jsoup.integration.servlets.*;
@@ -254,6 +255,31 @@ public void doesPut() throws IOException {
         assertEquals("auth=token", ihVal("Cookie", doc));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void doesDeleteWithBody() throws IOException {
+        // https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1972
+        String body = "some body";
+        Connection.Response res = Jsoup.connect(echoUrl)
+            .requestBody(body)
+            .method(Method.DELETE)
+            .execute();
+
+        Document doc = res.parse();
+        assertEquals("DELETE", ihVal("Method", doc));
+        assertEquals(body, ihVal("Post Data", doc));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void doesDeleteWithoutBody() throws IOException {
+        Connection.Response res = Jsoup.connect(echoUrl)
+            .method(Method.DELETE)
+            .execute();
+
+        Document doc = res.parse();
+        assertEquals("DELETE", ihVal("Method", doc));
+        assertEquals(null, ihVal("Post Data", doc));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Tests upload of content to a remote service.
      */
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/BaseServlet.java b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/BaseServlet.java
index b1bf5cca76..46d8e477e0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/BaseServlet.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/BaseServlet.java
@@ -24,4 +24,9 @@ protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws Se
     protected void doPut(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
         super.doPut(req, res);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doDelete(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        super.doPut(req, res);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/EchoServlet.java b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/EchoServlet.java
index f5bf2ce3ed..c3a9c44a3f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/EchoServlet.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/servlets/EchoServlet.java
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ protected void doPut(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws Ser
         doIt(req, res);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    protected void doDelete(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        doIt(req, res);
+    }
+
     private void doIt(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException, ServletException {
         int intCode = DefaultCode;
         String code = req.getHeader(CodeParam);