PUT vs POST in REST

Re:PUT vs POST in REST by ericmoritz on Sunday October 23, 2011 @10:36AM (#3146191)

With POST you're creating a resource within the resource identified by the Request-URI. The server is responsible for creating a URI for the new resource you created.

    POST /forum/http/
    
     - creates a new post into the HTTP forum

    POST /photogalleries/cats/

     - uploads a new photo into the cats photo gallery

With PUT the client knows the resource's URI. The client uses it to create or update the resource. The easiest why to visualize this is to think of a filesystem

   PUT /forum/http/post-vs-put

    - upserts a post identified by "post-vs-put" into the HTTP forum

   PUT /photogalleries/cats/smelly-cat

    - upserts a photo identified by "smelly-cat" into the cat's photo gallery.

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Re:PUT vs POST in REST by rue on Sunday October 23, 2011 @05:49PM (#3147369)

To be precise, there's really nothing that you can determine from the resource you're POSTing to. A POST to /forum/http/ could create a new cat picture in /yaykittens/ for all we know.

It's meant to be a catchall method, used for anything the others don't specifically cover.

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