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The HTTP GET method requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET should only retrieve data.

Request has body	No
Successful response has body	Yes
Safe	Yes
Idempotent	Yes
Cacheable	Yes
Allowed in HTML forms	Yes

Syntax

GET /index.html

Specifications

Specification	Title
RFC 7231, section 4.3.1: GET	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content

Feature	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Feature	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Edge mobile	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	iOS Safari	Samsung Internet
Basic support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Edge Mobile	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	iOS Safari	Samsung Internet
Basic support	Chrome Full support Yes	Edge Full support Yes	Firefox Full support Yes	IE Full support Yes	Opera Full support Yes	Safari Full support Yes	WebView Android Full support Yes	Chrome Android Full support Yes	Edge Mobile Full support Yes	Firefox Android Full support Yes	Opera Android Full support Yes	Safari iOS Full support Yes	Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes

Legend

Full support: Full support

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Last updated by: fscholz, Jun 7, 2017, 9:48:09 AM

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HTTP headers
1. Accept
2. Accept-Charset
3. Accept-Encoding
4. Accept-Language
5. Accept-Ranges
6. Access-Control-Allow-Credentials
7. Access-Control-Allow-Headers
8. Access-Control-Allow-Methods
9. Access-Control-Allow-Origin
10. Access-Control-Expose-Headers
11. Access-Control-Max-Age
12. Access-Control-Request-Headers
13. Access-Control-Request-Method
14. Age
15. Allow
16. Authorization
17. Cache-Control
18. Clear-Site-Data
19. Connection
20. Content-Disposition
21. Content-Encoding
22. Content-Language
23. Content-Length
24. Content-Location
25. Content-Range
26. Content-Security-Policy
27. Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only
28. Content-Type
29. Cookie
30. Cookie2
31. DNT
32. Date
33. ETag
34. Expect
35. Expect-CT
36. Expires
37. Feature-Policy
38. Forwarded
39. From
40. Host
41. If-Match
42. If-Modified-Since
43. If-None-Match
44. If-Range
45. If-Unmodified-Since
46. Keep-Alive
47. Large-Allocation
48. Last-Modified
49. Location
50. Origin
51. Pragma
52. Proxy-Authenticate
53. Proxy-Authorization
54. Public-Key-Pins
55. Public-Key-Pins-Report-Only
56. Range
57. Referer
58. Referrer-Policy
59. Retry-After
60. Sec-WebSocket-Accept
61. Server
62. Server-Timing
63. Set-Cookie
64. Set-Cookie2
65. SourceMap
66. Strict-Transport-Security
67. TE
68. Timing-Allow-Origin
69. Tk
70. Trailer
71. Transfer-Encoding
72. Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
73. User-Agent
74. Vary
75. Via
76. WWW-Authenticate
77. Warning
78. X-Content-Type-Options
79. X-DNS-Prefetch-Control
80. X-Forwarded-For
81. X-Forwarded-Host
82. X-Forwarded-Proto
83. X-Frame-Options
84. X-XSS-Protection
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1. 100 Continue
2. 101 Switching Protocols
3. 200 OK
4. 201 Created
5. 202 Accepted
6. 203 Non-Authoritative Information
7. 204 No Content
8. 205 Reset Content
9. 206 Partial Content
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13. 303 See Other
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16. 308 Permanent Redirect
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18. 401 Unauthorized
19. 403 Forbidden
20. 404 Not Found
21. 405 Method Not Allowed
22. 406 Not Acceptable
23. 407 Proxy Authentication Required
24. 408 Request Timeout
25. 409 Conflict
26. 410 Gone
27. 411 Length Required
28. 412 Precondition Failed
29. 413 Payload Too Large
30. 414 URI Too Long
31. 415 Unsupported Media Type
32. 416 Range Not Satisfiable
33. 417 Expectation Failed
34. 418 I'm a teapot
35. 422 Unprocessable Entity
36. 426 Upgrade Required
37. 428 Precondition Required
38. 429 Too Many Requests
39. 431 Request Header Fields Too Large
40. 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
41. 500 Internal Server Error
42. 501 Not Implemented
43. 502 Bad Gateway
44. 503 Service Unavailable
45. 504 Gateway Timeout
46. 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
47. 511 Network Authentication Required
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14. CSP: plugin-types
15. CSP: referrer
16. CSP: report-uri
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19. CSP: script-src
20. CSP: style-src
21. CSP: upgrade-insecure-requests
22. CSP: worker-src
23. report-to
CORS errors
1. Reason: CORS disabled
2. Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' does not match 'xyz'
3. Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing
4. Reason: CORS header ‘Origin’ cannot be added
5. Reason: CORS preflight channel did not succeed
6. Reason: CORS request did not succeed
7. Reason: CORS request external redirect not allowed
8. Reason: CORS request not HTTP
9. Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’
10. Reason: Did not find method in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Methods’
11. Reason: Multiple CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' not allowed
12. Reason: expected ‘true’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Credentials’
13. Reason: invalid token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Headers’
14. Reason: invalid token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Methods’
15. Reason: missing token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Headers’ from CORS preflight channel

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