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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

by Naren Yellavula
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
8h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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REST verbs and status codes

REST verbs specify an action to be performed on a specific resource or a collection of resources. When a request is made by the client, it should send the following information in the HTTP request:

  • The REST verb
  • Header information
  • The body (optional)

As we mentioned previously, REST uses the URI to decode the resource to be handled. There are quite a few REST verbs available, but six of them are used particularly frequently. They are presented, along with their expected actions, in the following table:

REST Verb Action
GET Fetches a record or set of resources from the server
OPTIONS Fetches all available REST operations
POST Creates a resource or a new set of resources
PUT Updates or replaces the ...
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ISBN: 9781838643577