What is HTTP?Two HTTP Request Methods: GET and POST

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Http) is intended to empower correspondences between customers and servers.

Http functions as an appeal reaction convention between a customer and server.

A web browser may be the customer, and a provision on a machine that has a site may be the server.

Case: A customer (browser) submits a Http solicit to the server; then the server returns a reaction to the customer. The reaction holds status data about the solicitation and might likewise hold the solicited substance.

Two commonly used methods for a request-response between a client and server are: GET and POST.

GET - Requests data from a specified resource
POST - Submits data to be processed to a specified resource

The GET Method

Some other notes on GET requests:

GET requests can be cached

GET requests remain in the browser history

GET requests can be bookmarked

GET requests should never be used when dealing with sensitive data

GET requests have length restrictions

GET requests should be used only to retrieve data

The POST Method

Some other notes on POST requests:

POST requests are never cached

POST requests do not remain in the browser history

POST requests cannot be bookmarked

POST requests have no restrictions on data length

Other HTTP Request Methods

Method                                                          Description

HEAD                        Same as GET but returns only HTTP headers and no document body

PUT                              Uploads a representation of the specified URI

DELETE                      Deletes the specified resource

OPTIONS              Returns the HTTP methods that the server supports

CONNECT              Converts the request connection to a transparent TCP/IP tunnel