What are the best/common RESTful url verbs and actions?

Question

I\'m trying to find some info on the best and most common RESTful url actions.

for example, what url do you use for displaying the details of an item, for editing th

Answer 1

Your four examples could be:

GET /questions/123
POST (or PUT) /questions/123 q=What+is+the+meaning+of+life
POST (or PUT) /questions/123 q=What+is+the+meaning+of+life
GET /questions

To add a question:

POST /questions q=What+is+the+meaning+of+life

The server would respond:

200 OK (or 201 Created)
Location: /questions/456