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HyperText Transfer Protocol - a textual system for representing web requests and replies.

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Why does the HTTP protcol support multiple methods?

So why does http support multiple methods? Is this just a historical accident? … Of course, not all http requests do the same thing, however in principle there is no reason why it would not be possible to define a "super" http method which can do everything each presently existing …
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