http header methods

Well known HTTP methods are GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, CONNECT

 

• GET method is the most used and default method when you enter an URL in your browser
• POST is used to send data like Form data (some web sites used GET also)
• PUT is used to upload files on server, most of web sites now uses POST to support advanced features
• HEAD is used by client to ask for file headers without content... can be used to check if file in browser cache have same modification date.
• CONNECT is used to ask a proxy server to connect to a other server... this is how https connection go through proxy servers. With this method, Proxy server only see this request! Every following requests are encrypted.