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Added some nuance to note about PUT and DELETE in modern browsers.
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There are actually nine HTTP methods defined by the HTTP specification,
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but many of them are not widely used or supported. In reality, many modern
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browsers don't even support the ``PUT`` and ``DELETE`` methods.
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browsers only support ``POST`` and ``GET`` in HTML forms.
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The methods ``PUT`` and ``DELETE`` are supported in XMLHttpRequests,
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which are commonly used in AJAX calls.
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In addition to the first line, an HTTP request invariably contains other
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lines of information called request headers. The headers can supply a wide

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