Question
In the context of this lesson, what other types of HTTP requests are there?
Answer
In addition to the GET
and POST
requests which are the most commonly used, there are several other types of requests that may be used in certain situations:
A PATCH
request, which can be used to modify some resource.
A PUT
request, which can create a new resource or replace an existing one.
A DELETE
request, which is used to delete a specified resource.
There is also a HEAD
request, which asks for a similar response as the GET
but without the body of the request.
A CONNECT
request, which is used to create a two-way communication with the requested resource.
An OPTIONS
request, which is used to get the communication options from the target resource.
Finally, there is a TRACE
request, which is used to perform a test along the path to the target resource using a loop-back message.