In RESTful web service, is OPTIONS method is supposed to be used to provide a list of available services? If yes, is that mandatory, or just a good programming practice.
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In RESTful web service, is OPTIONS method is supposed to be used to provide a list of available services? If yes, is that mandatory, or just a good programming practice.
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OPTIONSrequest should provide some information about what the client can do with the resource in question. The most obvious example is to show which methods the resource will respond to, probably using anAllowheader. You could also respond with theAccept-Rangesheader to show when you support range requests.In practice, though, the
Allowheader is the only common use of theOPTIONSmethod, and even then implementation is far from universal. So it’s a nice feature to have, but isn’t likely to make a huge difference in a real world service.