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This has no bearing on the project but since I am implementing a toy server I am wondering about the choice of the PUT method. I thought that it was mostly unused (browser don't send PUT requests) and was replaced by POST request most of the time.


Browsers will happily send any standard HTTP method including PUT. HTML forms always produce a GET or POST [0], but nowadays most requests are probably made with fetch() etc, not HTML forms.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/fo...


PUT can be used from XMLHttpRequest as well as fetch() and allows you to build a REST API using JavaScript.




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