The difference between PUT and POST

I have started learning Rails a couple months ago and, while learning it, I realized I didn’t remember the difference between an HTTP POST and a PUT.

Summarizing it here: a POST is a very generic thing that just sends a bunch of content for a URI to handle. The URI might do whatever it wants with that content (even forward it to a different URI).

A PUT is something more specific. It also sends data to a URI, but that data must modify that URI.

More @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/107390/whats-the-difference-between-a-post-and-a-put-http-request

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