Mastering ASP.NET Web API

HTTP PUT example

We can perform an update to our representation with the following URL. Take note of the HTTP verb PUT.

The documentation has said that we can call a PUT method at the following resource and also note the /star as part of the URI. PUT is used to modify our representation. Generally, PUT will have a body. In the gist API for GitHub, they have made it simpler. Generally, the notion is for PUT to look similar to POST, except that the URI contains the identifier that was received when the POST method was called:

PUT behaves similar to POST when a resource does not exist. In our example from POST, if you had to call PUT the very ...