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This article is a rough explanation of the HTTP method.

Everything might be not exactly correct in this article but it’s very useful for beginners to understand IT terms. If you want to learn IT but you don’t have any experience to work in the IT industry, I wish it helps you to understand IT. And I hope this article makes you study IT more.

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What is the HTTP method?

There are eight methods.
The HTTP method is also known as HTTP request method.
Post and Get requests are mainly used.

You maybe hear request methods more often than HTTP methods. Because people use this method as they request. This method is important for Web systems. There are many IT terms about the Web, so I summarize them as follows. And the related articles are here.

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1. Request methods

HTTP defines eight methods. Names of methods are as follows.

GET
POST
PUT
DELETE
OPTIONS
HEAD
TRACE
CONNECT

You need to remember only GET and POST. Because you rarely use other methods.

**Summary of HTTP methods(Request methods)**, **Information source from Wikipedia**(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

GET

The GET method requests that the target resource transfers a representation of its state. This method should only get data and it should not have any other effects.