Http Methods - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

HTTP Methods

Description
OPTIONS
This method is a request of information about the communication options available on the chain
between the client and the server identified by the Request-URI. The method allows the client to
determine the options and (or) the requirements associated with a resource without initiating any
resource retrieval
GET
This method retrieves whatever information identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI
refers to a data processing process than the response to the GET method should contain data
produced by the process, not the source code of the process procedure(-s), unless the source is the
result of the process.
The GET method can become a conditional GET if the request message includes an
If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since, If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header field.
The conditional GET method is used to reduce the network traffic specifying that the transfer of the
entity should occur only under circumstances described by conditional header field(-s).
The GET method can become a partial GET if the request message includes a Range header field.
The partial GET method intends to reduce unnecessary network usage by requesting only parts of
entities without transferring data already held by client.
The response to a GET request is cacheable if and only if it meets the requirements for HTTP
caching.
HEAD
This method shares all features of GET method except that the server must not return a
message-body in the response. This retrieves the metainformation of the entity implied by the
request which leads to a wide usage of it for testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and
recent modification.
The response to a HEAD request may be cacheable in the way that the information contained in the
response may be used to update previously cached entity identified by that Request-URI.
POST
This method requests that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new
subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI.
The actual action performed by the POST method is determined by the origin server and usually is
Request-URI dependent.
Responses to POST method are not cacheable, unless the response includes appropriate
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