The Four Verbs, 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,' Codecademy, How to use APIs with JavaScript,
In this lesson we go over 4 important verbs when dealing with API's and when making https and http request. We use GET requests to retrieve information from a specific source. POST requests are used to send information to a specific source. PUT requests are used to update existing info of specific source(like updating comment). A DELETE requests is used to delete existing information from specific source.