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What are the HTTP methods supported by REST?

REST supports the following HTTP methods:

GET: It requests a resource at the request URL. It should not contain a request body as it will be discarded. May be it can be cached locally or on the server. It can have request headers.

POST: It submits information to the service for processing; it should typically return the modified or new resource. It can have both request body and request headers.

PUT: At the request URL it update the resource. It can have both request body and request headers.

DELETE: At the request URL it removes the resource. It can have both request body and request headers.

OPTIONS: It indicates which techniques are supported.

HEAD: It returns meta information about the request URL.

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