HTTP methods and status codes
The vocabulary of every web request: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, which are safe and which are idempotent, and the status codes from 200 to 504 that every API returns, with when to use each.
CodexBash, , 5 min read
Every web request has a method, saying what the client wants to do, and every response has a status code, saying how it went. Using them correctly makes an API predictable: clients, browsers, caches and monitoring tools all understand them without reading your documentation. This article is the reference you will come back to.
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