I tried the workaround, which would also be fine by me, as specified here

Unfortunately I get something like:

Unable to purge content with id: ContentId{id=32112651}

If I try to do it with ?status=trashed in the uri, there error is different but similar... I have no idea on how to delete an attachments.

It's a shame that this ticket has not been resolved after so much time.

I also noticed that there is in fact only a very slow progress on the Confluence REST API.
For Greenshot I was writing a reusable REST API client as the Web-Service (SOAP) was deprecated and removed. Still I find a lot of things missing... are there any plans on continueing the development on the REST API?

Here is the procedure to delete an attachment from confluence page, send an "xhr" request with the following parameters:

URL : http(s)://localhost:8080/confluence/json/removeattachmentversion.action?pageId=<confluence page id>&fileName=<file name>&version=1

Note: remove the "version=X" in request URL if you wish to delete all the versions of the file.

Request Type: POST

Htttp Headers:
•Content-Type: "application/json"
•Authorization: "<your authorization code>" ( i.e "Basic base64(username:password)")
•X-Atlassian-Token: "no-check"

Hi Eric,

Think we have the correct effected versions, and this is not fixed though someone thought it was. Working to get this reviewed.

I tried to change it, but it looks like I cannot.
Perhaps I should not have cloned an existing ticket.
I did so because I was unfamiliar with your conventions.

The Release Version here should be 5.5.3, not 5.0-OD-1. Can someone please change that to the correct version?

Specifically here, what is needed is the ability to DELETE attachments using the REST API. We have a CRUD API that does not perform deletes - so it basically is missing the delete ability here. We have the CR (create) U (update) but not D (delete) , so it is missing the full-CRUD API ability. We should have the ability to delete and by version (or all if desired). The reason here is that this does build up cruft over time, and we should offer a way to remove older versions programmatically for developers.

Currently it seems there is no way to delete an attachment using the REST api.

Please see service desk ticket:

https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/14/CSP-137230