REST, HTTP DELETE and parameters

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Is there anything non-RESTful about providing parameters to a HTTP DELETE request?

My scenario is that I'm modeling the "Are you sure you want to delete that?" scenario and eventually I end up having to pass a parameter to the delete request with "?force_delete=true"

e.g.

DELETE http://server/resource/id?force_delete=true

If the user does not specify force_delete then I'm returning 409 Conflict - is that correct?

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