405 Method Not Allowed

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The HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed response status code indicates that the request method is known by the server but has been disabled and cannot be used. The two mandatory methods, GET and HEAD, must never be disabled and should not return this error code.

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405 Method Not Allowed

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RFC 7231, section 6.5.5: 405 Method Not Allowed	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content

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