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4. Request and Response: Being a Servlet > Actually, one or more of the other H...
If you’re preparing for the exam, you should be able to recognize all of them from a list, and have at least the briefest idea of what they’re used for. But don’t spend much time here!
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In the real servlet world, you care about GET and POST.
In the exam world, you care just a tiny bit about the other HTTP Methods as well.
GET | Asks to get the thing (resource / file) at the requested URL. |
POST | Asks the server to accept the body info attached to the request, and give it to the thing at the requested URL It’s like a fat GET... a GET with extra info sent with the request. |
HEAD | Asks for only the header part of whatever a GET would return. So it’s just like GET, but with no body in the response. Gives you info about the requested URL without actually getting back the real thing. |
