function delete($path) {
        $this->_path = $this->translate_uri($path);
        $this->header_unset();
        $this->create_basic_request('DELETE');
        /* $this->header_add('Content-Length: 0'); */
        $this->header_add('');
        $this->send_request();
        $this->get_respond();
        $response = $this->process_respond();

        // validate the response ...
        // check http-version
        if ($response['status']['http-version'] == 'HTTP/1.1' ||
            $response['status']['http-version'] == 'HTTP/1.0') {
                // seems to be http ... proceed
                // We expect a 207 Multi-Status status code
                // print 'http ok<br>';

                switch ($response['status']['status-code']) {
                case 207:
                    // collection was NOT deleted... see xml response for reason...
                    // next there should be a Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" header line
                    if (strcmp($response['header']['Content-Type'], 'text/xml; charset="utf-8"') == 0) {
                        // ok let's get the content of the xml stuff
                        $this->_parser = xml_parser_create_ns();
                        $this->_parserid = (int) $this->_parser;
                        // forget old data...
                        unset($this->_delete[$this->_parserid]);
                        unset($this->_xmltree[$this->_parserid]);
                        xml_parser_set_option($this->_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,0);
                        xml_parser_set_option($this->_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
                        xml_set_object($this->_parser, $this);
                        xml_set_element_handler($this->_parser, "_delete_startElement", "_endElement");
                        xml_set_character_data_handler($this->_parser, "_delete_cdata");

                        if (!xml_parse($this->_parser, $response['body'])) {
                            die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                                xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->_parser)),
                                xml_get_current_line_number($this->_parser)));
                        }

                        print "<br>";

                        // Free resources
                        xml_parser_free($this->_parser);
                        $this->_delete[$this->_parserid]['status'] = $response['status']['status-code'];
                        return $this->_delete[$this->_parserid];

                    } else {
                        print 'Missing Content-Type: text/xml header in response.<br>';
                    }
                    return false;

                default:
                    // collection or file was successfully deleted
                    $this->_delete['status'] = $response['status']['status-code'];
                    return $this->_delete;


                }
            }

    }