2014/05/08 by Sawood Alam, Alam, Sawood, Charles L. Cartledge +3
Computer Science · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services #Web Data Mining and Analysis #cs.DL #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1405.2330
16 pages, 6 figures, and 11 tables
arxiv created 2014/05/08 · openalex publication_date 2014/05/08 · arxiv updated 2014/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We examine how well various HTTP methods are supported by public web services. We sample 40,870 live URIs from the DMOZ collection (a curated directory of World Wide Web URIs) and found that about 55% URIs claim support (in the Allow header) for GET and POST methods, but less than 2% of the URIs claim support for one or more of PUT, PATCH, or DELETE methods.