Maybe I'm completely off, but in my opinion HTTP verbs are semantically on a lower level. I know that the classic OSI model only has seven layers, and HTTP is i

Maybe I'm completely off, but in my opinion HTTP verbs are semantically on a lower level. I know that the classic OSI model only has seven layers, and HTTP is in layer seven, but for me, the actual web application using HTTP is in a layer above that. There are side effects to using those verbs that depend on browser and web server used. For example there may be cases where want to use POST instead of GET even for simple data retrieval, just because you're transmitting a credit card number or other sensitive information and you don't want it to be stored in the web server logs or the browser history. Or the parameters might exceed the maximum length for GET requests. In those cases, it would be a pain to make a semantic distinction between the request verbs on the server level. They should be interchangeable. Another example is that in IIS 7 you have to jump through quite a few configuration hoops to get PUT and DELETE to work.