A form is for user input and should always be "posted" through a gateway or handler on the server side. A PUT would imply that the payload is accepted as is. Al

A form is for user input and should always be "posted" through a gateway or handler on the server side. A PUT would imply that the payload is accepted as is. Also a PUT implies that a form cannot be sent twice to the same URI after the resource on the server has been created. So PUT is basically a nightmare for user interaction. A DELETE has no payload. OPTIONS and HEAD make no sense for a browser, because there is no information to show to the user. So that leaves us with POST and GET. As I already stated, POST is the best form to send user data to a server. And a form with GET is just an URI builder. Edit: Well no, that does not leave us with POST and GET, because there are also CONNECT and TRACE. But who wants to concern a user with those?