HTTP Protocol Methods

What are HTTP Protocol Methods? Explain.

The HTTP methods are given below. These method names are case sensitive and they must be used in uppercase.

GET Method

A GET request retrieves data from a web server by specifying parameters in the URL portion of the request. This is the main method used for document retrieval.

POST Method

The POST method is used when you want to send some data to the server, for example, file update, form data, etc.

HEAD Method

The HEAD method is functionally similar to GET, except that the server replies with a response line and headers, but no entity-body.

PUT Method

The PUT method is used to request the server to store the included entity-body at a location specified by the given URL.

DELETE Method

The DELETE method is used to request the server to delete a file at a location specified by the given URL.

CONNECT Method

The CONNECT method is used by the client to establish a network connection to a web server over HTTP.

OPTIONS Method

The OPTIONS method is used by the client to find out the HTTP methods and other options supported by a web server. The client can specify a URL for the OPTIONS method, or an asterisk (*) to refer to the entire server.

TRACE Method

The TRACE method is used to echo the contents of an HTTP Request back to the requester which can be used for debugging purpose at the time of development.