The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

You’d think that a language with a mere handful of verbs, only two of which are widely spoken, would be easy to learn. Not so in the case of the HTTP, though. After more than a decade, we’re still ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between PUT and POST methods is that a PUT is restricted to create or update ...

Take advantage of a DelegatingHandler and the X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API to overcome browser and firewall constraints When deploying your REST Web API over a public domain, you will sometimes ...