> So why were they in the original HTTP spec if they weren't supported by original HTTP agents? Bad assumption.[1] HTTP/1.0 spec (1996) defined GET, POST, and

> So why were they in the original HTTP spec if they weren't supported by original HTTP agents? Bad assumption.[1] HTTP/1.0 spec (1996) defined GET, POST, and HEAD.[2] HTTP/1.1 spec (1997) defined all of the other, newer methods.[3] > supported by original HTTP agents The first web browsers I know about were Mosaic (1993) and Netscape Navigator (1994) predating the HTTP/1.0 RFC. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41411152/how-many-http-verbs-are-there https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41411152/how-many-http-v... [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-5.1.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-5.1.1 [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-9 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-9