ActionVerbs: HttpGet, HttpPost, HttpPut

The ActionVerbs selector is to handle different type of Http requests. The MVC framework includes HttpGet, HttpPost, HttpPut, HttpDelete, HttpOptions, and HttpPatch action verbs. You can apply one or more action verbs to an action method to handle different HTTP requests. If you don't apply any action verbs to an action method, then it will handle HttpGet request by default.

The following table lists the usage of HTTP methods:

The following example shows how to handle different types of HTTP requests in the Controller using ActionVerbs:

public class StudentController : Controller

{

    public ActionResult Index() // handles GET requests by default

    {

        return View();

    }

    [HttpPost]

    public ActionResult PostAction() // handles POST requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

    [HttpPut]

    public ActionResult PutAction() // handles PUT requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

    [HttpDelete]

    public ActionResult DeleteAction() // handles DELETE requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

    [HttpHead]

    public ActionResult HeadAction() // handles HEAD requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

    [HttpOptions]

    public ActionResult OptionsAction() // handles OPTION requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

    [HttpPatch]

    public ActionResult PatchAction() // handles PATCH requests by default

    {

        return View("Index");

    }

}

You can also apply multiple action verbs using the AcceptVerbs attribute, as shown below.

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post | HttpVerbs.Get)]

public ActionResult GetAndPostAction()

{

    return RedirectToAction("Index");

}