There are multiple methods (or verbs) that HTTP uses. The most common are GET and POST, but there are many more. Typically, we use GET requests to retrieve data from a server, and we use POST to submit data and make changes. GET should not be used to alter data.
Other useful verbs are HEAD and OPTIONS. HEAD can check the headers for a GET request without the overhead of downloading the body. This is useful to check caching headers to see whether the resource has changed. OPTIONS is commonly used for Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) to perform a preflight check to validate a domain.
Other often used verbs are PUT, DELETE, and PATCH. We mainly use these for Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs because they can mimic ...
