Nature of HTTP methods

Since we will be mainly dealing with URLs over HTTP and will be using HTTP methods, it is better to spend some time understanding the nature of HTTP methods.

We should also understand that HTTP methods are not actually doing any type of listing or creation or modification by themselves. It is just a convention to use certain HTTP methods and URL patterns for certain operations. These methods do not perform any operations on their own but it depends on the server-side developer. These methods can result in any operation depending on the code that the developer writes.

When we talk about the nature of HTTP methods, then it is about the convention and standards which are followed. After all, RESTful web services are about preferring convention over configuration. The foundation of today's HTTP and REST lies on these conventions and while writing RESTful web services, we are going to follow these conventions.