I am trying to create a HTTP PUT request with cURL and I can’t make it work. I’ve read many tutorials but none of them actually worked. Here’s my current code: I’ve also tried using PHP PEAR but got the same result. The problem is that the repository says that no metadata has been set. … Read more
You could use the ajax method:
HTTP PUT: PUT puts a file or resource at a specific URI, and exactly at that URI. If there’s already a file or resource at that URI, PUT replaces that file or resource. If there is no file or resource there, PUT creates one. PUT is idempotent, but paradoxically PUT responses are not cacheable. HTTP 1.1 … Read more
NOTE: When I first spent time reading about REST, idempotence was a confusing concept to try to get right. I still didn’t get it quite right in my original answer, as further comments (and Jason Hoetger’s answer) have shown. For a while, I have resisted updating this answer extensively, to avoid effectively plagiarizing Jason, but … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more