Reading and writing

Reference for the HTTP methods that read, replace, append, relocate, and remove document fragments — plus content negotiation, the request document, and Server-Sent Events.

Pages in this group

HTTP Methods

• GET method — retrieve a whole document or a single fragment by CSS selector
• PUT method — replace a fragment or create a document
• POST method — append content to a fragment or create a new resource
• MOVE method — atomically relocate a fragment within or across documents
• DELETE method — remove a fragment and its descendants from a document

Other pages in this group

• Content Negotiation — request alternative representations via the Accept header
• Server-Sent Events — subscribe to live mutation streams over HTTP
• Uploading files — store images, CSS, JS, and other non-HTML/XML files as byte-for-byte blobs
• Request Document — the current HTTP request exposed as an addressable HTML document

Parameterized routes moved to Composing pages — it's a page-composition concept (matching a stored template to many request URLs), not an HTTP method.

See also

• Protocol — OPTIONS discovery and WebDAV authoring
• Modeling data — schemas, constraints, and resolvers that validate writes
• Composing pages — includes, templating, and resource bindings