GET
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The GET
HTTP method requests a representation of the specified resource.
Requests using GET
should only be used to request data and shouldn't contain a body.
Note: The semantics of sending a message body in GET
requests are undefined.
Some servers may reject the request with a 4XX client error response.
Request has body | No |
---|---|
Successful response has body | Yes |
Safe | Yes |
Idempotent | Yes |
Cacheable | Yes |
Allowed in HTML forms | Yes |
Syntax
GET <request-target>["?"<query>] HTTP/1.1
<request-target>
-
Identifies the target resource of the request when combined with the information provided in the
Host
header. This is an absolute path (e.g.,/path/to/file.html
) in requests to an origin server, and an absolute URL in requests to proxies (e.g.,http://www.example.com/path/to/file.html
). <query>
Optional-
An optional query component preceded by a question-mark
?
. Often used to carry identifying information in the form ofkey=value
pairs.
Examples
Successfully retrieving a resource
The following GET
request asks for the resource at example.com/contact
:
GET /contact HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: */*
The server sends back the resource with a 200 OK
status code, indicating success:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:18:33 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT
Content-Length: 1234
<!doctype html>
<!-- HTML content follows -->
Specifications
Specification |
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HTTP Semantics # GET |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
- HTTP request methods
- HTTP response status codes
- HTTP headers
Range
headerPOST
method