http-put

What is the difference between PUT, POST and PATCH methods in HTTP protocol? Litisqe Kumar POST HTTP.POST can be used when the client is sending data to the server and the server will decide the URI for the newly created resource. The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line. PUT HTTP.PUT can be used when the client is sending data to the server and the client is determining the URI for the newly created resource. The PUT method requests that the

I'm just starting to use Web API and though I found it really easy to create the methods and some configurations I needed, now I run into a problem I don't know how to solve. Some of the applications that will consume my services are very old and don't support DELETE and PUT methods (j2me applications for example) I have found that it is possible to do some kind of method emulation by passing something like this : _method=DELETE|PUT However, I'm not really sure if Web API will be able to interpret this and besides, I don't have the faintest idea how to do it. For those reasons I'm thinking in

I use HTTP PUT and DELETE in my ASP.NET MVC3 application. When I run it in local, every thing works correctly; But when I publish the application to the server, these methods do not work. Are there any special settings for enable a web server to support PUT and DELETE requests? I'm using shared hosting with IIS 7.5. UPDATE: I enable PUT and DELETE requests in IIS manager . PUT command work fine. But DELETE still not works. I create requests by jQuery : I'm in this page: http://domain.com/dashboard/edit-site/103323/links/ and my ajax call is: $.ajax({ // url: same as page-url, cache: false,