Getting familiar with the HTTP Verbs

The HTTP protocol provides the HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and many more to communicate with the server resources. HTTP verbs are used for different purposes:

Frequently Used HTTP Verbs

GET - Used for the information retrieval

POST- Used to create a new resource that has yet to be identified by the origin server

PUT - Used to create or update the resources that have been sent in the payload

PATCH - Used to update the single attribute of Resources

DELETE - Used to delete the resource in server with nobody content in response

Frequently Used HTTP Status codes

2XX - Success

• 200 - Status OK
• 201 - Created
• 204 - No Content

3XX - Redirection

• 301 - Moved Permanently

4xx - Client Error

• 400 - Bad Request
• 401 - UnAuthorized
• 403 - Forbidden
• 404 - Not found
• 409 - Conflict

5xx - Server Error

• 500 - Internal Server Error
• 501 - Not Implemented
• 502 - Bad Gateway
• 503 - Service Unavailable

References:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status
• https://httpstatuses.com/
• https://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.1