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.

8 Samh 2011 · Can I use a PUT method in an HTML form to send data from the form to a server?

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 …

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

I'm building a RESTful API using Zend Framework via the Zend_Rest_Route. For uploading of files, should I use PUT or POST to handle the process? I'm trying to be as consistent as possible with …

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

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). …

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).

The difference between the PUT and PATCH requests is reflected in the way the server processes the enclosed entity to modify the resource identified by the Request-URI.

Can I use POST instead of PUT method? Yes, you can. HTML forms, for example, use POST for all writes. If POST can do work of PUT method, why PUT method is required? It didn't use to be. In …