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March 7, 2020 11:49 pm GMT

When should I use HTTP verbs?

When is it a good idea to use PUT and DELETE for APIs, instead of separate endpoint names (like POST /comments/post vs POST /comments/delete)?

My website's comment API uses mostly a single endpoint, with GET, POST, PUT (for editing), and DELETE handlers, and the same thing for the conlang dictionary. But ever since the day I implemented them I've felt agonizingly ambivalent about the decision, and I'm still not really satisfied. The pragmatist in me says use the available features of the protocol, but the simplist in me says don't use PUT and DELETE because it's bad design for the protocol to know about that.


Original Link: https://dev.to/yujiri8/when-should-i-use-http-verbs-4pik

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