PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery

PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery
After that discussion, a more realistic mapping would seem to be:
Create = PUT iff you are sending the full content of the specified resource (URL).
Create = POST if you are sending a command to the server to create a subordinate of the specified resource, using some server-side algorithm.
Retrieve = GET.
Update = PUT iff you are updating the full content of the specified resource.
Update = POST if you are requesting the server to update one or more subordinates of the specified resource.
Delete = DELETE.