Support for Various HTTP Methods on the Web
Sawood Alam, Charles L. Cartledge, Michael L. Nelson

TL;DR
This study evaluates the support for different HTTP methods across a large sample of web services, revealing high support for GET and POST but very limited support for methods like PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.
Contribution
It provides empirical data on the actual support for various HTTP methods in real-world web services, highlighting gaps in support for less common methods.
Findings
55% of URIs support GET and POST methods
Less than 2% support PUT, PATCH, or DELETE methods
Most web services do not support all HTTP methods.
Abstract
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.
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Taxonomy
TopicsService-Oriented Architecture and Web Services · Semantic Web and Ontologies · Web Data Mining and Analysis
