Where to find HTTP methods examples?

Question

HTTP defines eight methods (sometimes referred to as "verbs")

Can you help me find examples for each one so I can test and understand them better?

Answer 1

First you should take a look into the HTTP 1.1 specification, especially the section method definitions.

• OPTIONS Get information about how the server allows to communicate with.

  Request:

  OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
  Host: example.com
  

  Response:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: …
  Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE
  Content-Length: 0
  

• GET Retrieve a resource.

  Request:

  GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
  Host: example.com
  

  Response:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: …
  Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  Content-Length: 12345
   
  <!DOCTYPE …
  

• HEAD Like GET, but returns just the HTTP header.

  Request:

  HEAD /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
  Host: example.com
  

  Response:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: …
  Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  Content-Length: 12345
  

• POST Create a new resource.

  Request:

  POST /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
  Host: example.com
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   
  action=addentry&subject=Hello,%20World
  

  Response:

  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Date: …
  Content-Length: 0
  Location: http://example.com/foo/bar        
  

• PUT Send data to the server.

• DELETE Delete an existing resource.

• TRACE Return the request headers sent by the client.

  Request:

  TRACE /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
  Host: example.com
  

  Response:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: …
  Content-Length: 17
   
  Host: example.com
  

I don’t know exactly if these examples are correct. Feel free to correct them.