PUT
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The PUT
HTTP method creates a new resource or replaces a representation of the target resource with the request content.
The difference between PUT
and POST
is that PUT
is idempotent: calling it once is no different from calling it several times successively (there are no side effects).
Request has body | Yes |
---|---|
Successful response has body | May |
Safe | No |
Idempotent | Yes |
Cacheable | No |
Allowed in HTML forms | No |
Syntax
PUT <request-target>["?"<query>] HTTP/1.1
<request-target>
-
Identifies the target resource of the request when combined with the information provided in the
Host
header. This is an absolute path (e.g.,/path/to/file.html
) in requests to an origin server, and an absolute URL in requests to proxies (e.g.,https://www.example.com/path/to/file.html
). <query>
Optional-
An optional query component preceded by a question-mark
?
. Often used to carry identifying information in the form ofkey=value
pairs.
Examples
Successfully creating a resource
The following PUT
request asks to create a resource at example.com/new.html
with the content <p>New File</p>
:
PUT /new.html HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 16
<p>New File</p>
If the target resource does not have a current representation and the PUT
request successfully creates one, then the origin server must send a 201 Created
response:
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Location: /new.html
If the target resource does have a current representation and that representation is successfully modified with the state in the request, the origin server must send either a 200 OK
or a 204 No Content
to indicate successful completion of the request:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Location: /existing.html
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTTP Semantics # PUT |
Browser compatibility
The browser doesn't use the PUT
method for user-initiated actions, so "browser compatibility" doesn't apply.
Developers can set this request method using fetch()
.
See also
- HTTP request methods
- HTTP response status codes
- HTTP headers
201 Created
,204 No Content
response statuses