WebService Delete- DELETE does not support writing

Estou desenvolvendo um client para acessar websevice DELETE , porém esta dando erro de :

java.net.ProtocolException: DELETE does not support writing

Estou utilizando o POSTMAIN, retorna status 200.

segue abaixo o meu código:

Client Android:

public void apagarWebServiceDelete(Long id) {
try {
URL url;
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
//Create connection
url = new URL(“http://192.168.0.120:8081/WebServiceAndroid/web/” + id);

    connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
            "application/json");
    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setDoInput(true);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);
    connection.setConnectTimeout(30000);
    //Send request
    DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(
            connection.getOutputStream());
    wr.flush();
    wr.close();

    //Get Response
    InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    String line;
    StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
        response.append(line);
        response.append('\r');
    }
    rd.close();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

}
Código do Server:

@RequestMapping(value = “/{id}”, method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
public Response deletaPessoas(@PathVariable Long id) {
if(true) {
return Response.Ok(“Carro deletado com sucesso”);
} else {
return Response.Error(“Erro ao deletar carro”);
}

}