OPTIONS |
The OPTIONS method represents a request for information about the communication options available on the request/response chain identified by the Request-URI. |
GET |
The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI. |
HEAD |
The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. |
POST |
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line. |
PUT |
The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI. |
DELETE |
The DELETE method requests that the origin server delete the resource identified by the Request-URI. |
TRACE |
The TRACE method is used to invoke a remote, application-layer loopback of the request message. |
CONNECT |
This specification reserves the method name CONNECT for use with a proxy that can dynamically switch to being a tunnel (e.g. SSL tunneling [44]). |