PUT is used by FB to update the comment because an existing resource is being updated, and that is what PUT does (updates a resource). PUT happens to be idempotent, in contrast to POST.

28 Aib 2009 · I was wondering what people's opinions are of a RESTful PUT operation that returns nothing (null) in the response body.

24 Márta 2014 · The difference between POST and PUT is that PUT is idempotent, that means, calling the same PUT request multiple times will always produce the same result (that is no …

Since PUT requests include the entire entity, if you issue the same request repeatedly, it should always have the same outcome (the data you sent is now the entire data of the entity). …

8 Noll 2012 · How do I test a RESTful PUT (or DELETE) method using cURL?

27 Meith 2015 · 437 Difference between PUT, POST, GET, DELETE and PATCH in HTTP Verbs: The most commonly used HTTP verbs POST, GET, PUT, DELETE are similar to CRUD (Create, Read, …

22 Feabh 2015 · -X PUT is redundant when using -T (which is short for --upload-file). This is basically the same as the accepted answer (which is a few years older).

14 Ean 2015 · The question asks how to use PUT and DELETE, and this answer explains how to use GET and POST

71 In addition to all the excellent answers here, newer versions of matplotlib and pylab can automatically determine where to put the legend without interfering with the plots, if possible.

7 Samh 2018 · What is being PUT (in the verb sense) onto the server if there's no content? The spec refers to the content as "the enclosed entity", but a request with no content would have no …