How to use VERB in url

Question

I am trying to create and API which uses VERB PUT,GET,DELETE

I can use it in curl by this

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/recipes/hi

But how can i use similarly in url

for eg

This works

http://localhost:8080/recipes/hi

But this is not working

http://localhost:8080/recipes/DELETE/foo

How to add verb DELETE in url?

Answer 1

You don't.

The HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS) are applied to a URL. They are not elements of a URL.

You can see that in your cURL example: curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/recipes/hi

Here the HTTP verb is DELETE, while the URL is http://localhost:8080/recipes/hi. Verb and URL: two different things.

In general, when you enter a URL into a browser address bar, it will issue a GET request to that URL. Browsers will issue POST requests when submitting a form on a HTML page with a method="POST" attribute.

<form method="post" action="http://localhost:8080/submit">

If you fill in this form, the browser will submit a POST request to that URL.

Browsers will not, in the normal course of events, issue PUT, DELETE, HEAD, or OPTIONS requests. They can, but it will require scripting with javascript.