HTTP Methods

HTTP defines nine methods indicating the desired action to be performed on the identified resource.The list has mentioned below are the methods available for HTTP.

HEAD

Asks for the response identical to the one that would correspond to a GET request, but without the response body. This is useful for retrieving meta-information written in response headers, without having to transport the entire content.

GET

Requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET (and a few other HTTP methods) "SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval".

POST
Submits data to be processed (e.g., from an HTML form) to the identified resource. The data is included in the body of the request. This may result in the creation of a new resource or the updates of existing resources or both.

PUT
Uploads a representation of the specified resource.

DELETE
Deletes the specified resource.

TRACE

Echoes back the received request, so that a client can see what (if any) changes or additions have been made by intermediate servers.

OPTIONS

Returns the HTTP methods that the server supports for specified URL. This can be used to check the functionality of a web server by requesting '*' instead of a specific resource.

CONNECT

Converts the request connection to a transparent TCP/IP tunnel, usually to facilitate SSL-encrypted communication (HTTPS) through an unencrypted HTTP proxy.

PATCH

Is used to apply partial modifications to a resource.
 

HTTP servers are required to implement at least the GET and HEAD methods and, whenever possible, also the OPTIONS method.

BW supports the METHOD= DELETE, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, PUT and  For other methods throughs the error code  "BW-HTTP-100000" "statusCode =405"