HTTP Methods

GET: designed for getting information (a document, a chart, or the results from a database query).

 

 

 

POST:designed for posting information (a credit card number, some new chart data, or information that is to be stored in a database).

 

 

 

PUT: to place documents directly on the server.

 

 

 

DELETE:to delete documents directly on the server.

 

 

 

HEAD:sent by a client when it wants to see only the headers of the response, to determine the document's size, modification time, or general availability

 

 

 

OPTION:to be used to ask the server which methods it supports or what options are available for a particular resource on the server.

 

 

 

TRACE:to be used as a debugging aid—it returns to the client the exact contents of its request.

 

其中最后两种很少用到.