Methods: GET

GET request method

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.

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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 of key=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
HTTP Semantics> # GET>

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`GET`	1	12	1	2	1	18	4	10.1	1	1.0	1	1