A Client wants to retrieve a representation of a resource, for example an HTML page, allowing a cached version to be returning by an intermediary such a proxy server. Which HTTP method should it use?

The correct answer is A. GET. The first version of the HTTP protocol had only one method, namely GET, which would request a page from a server. The response from the server was always an HTML page

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A Client wants to retrieve a representation of a resource, for example an HTML page, allowing a cached version to be returning by an intermediary such a proxy server. Which HTTP method should it use?

Options

AGET
BPUT
CPOST
DDELETE

How the community answered

(53 responses)

A
74% (39)
B
4% (2)
C
15% (8)
D
8% (4)

Explanation

The first version of the HTTP protocol had only one method, namely GET, which would request a page from a server. The response from the server was always an HTML page

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#HTTP GET#HTTP methods#caching#idempotent requests

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