The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

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In my previous blog post, I briefly wrote about the use of Groovy, Groovy’s GDK String, and the Java-provided URL class to write simple HTTP/REST clients. In this post, I look at how use of the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between PUT and POST methods is that a PUT is restricted to create or update ...