Handling an HTTP request
An HTTP request is a message the client sends to a server to request information and perform an action. The server processes that request and returns a response to the client. Clients indeed perform HTTP requests asynchronously to leave the main thread free. However, the connection between the client and server is synchronous as the client waits for the server’s response to complete the request operation.
The primary HTTP request component is the request method, which indicates the request’s main goal. Let’s go over some of the basic HTTP methods now.
Basic HTTP request methods
The REST API is based on the idea of a request-response style, and it’s a one-directional communication with our backend. The REST API has eight methods to use when communicating with the backend. However, in most cases, we will use the following four methods:
GET: This is used to retrieve information only from the server. It should be a safe...
