• From Carlos E. Perez common verbs collection.

HTTP Methods: (RFC 2616)

• OPTIONS - (9.2) Let the client determine the communication requirements of the server without initiating a retrieval.
• GET - (9.3) Retrieve whatever data that is identified by a request.
• HEAD - (9.4) Return GET information without the message body.
• POST - (9.5) Perform an action on the server that may create a resource using the Request-URI.
• PUT - (9.6) Create a resource at the Request
• DELETE - (9.7) Delete the resource identified by the Request-URI
• TRACE - (9.8) Invoke an application-layer acknowledgement.
• CONNECT - (9.9) Reserved method for tunnel requests to a proxy.

WebDAV Methods:(RFC 2518)

• PROPFIND - (8.1) Retrieve the properties associated with a resource.
• PROPPATCH - (8.2) Process an instructions to set or remove a property.
• MKCOL - (8.3) Create a new collection.
• COPY - (8.8) Create a duplicate of a resource.
• MOVE - (8.9) Move a resource to the specified location.
• LOCK - (8.10) Lock access to a resource.
• UNLOCK - (8.11) Remove a lock from a resource.

Notification:

• NOTIFY - Send an event to a specific destination.
• PUBLISH - Broadcast an event to a particular channel that matches some filtering criteria.
• SUBSCRIBE - Listen to a particular channel defined by some filtering criteria.
• FILTER - Apply a filter to an event or event collection and return only the relevant notifications.
• SEARCH - Invoke a server-side query.

Presence:

• LOGON, LOGOFF - Asserting & retracting presence information.

Coordination:

• CREATE, SETUP - Setup and create the server-side environment to support a long-duration electronic service.
• RUN, INVOKE - Intiate a server-side service.
• HISTORY - Retrive the change, log, or transaction history of a resource or service.
• COMPLETE - Notify a resource that a remote service has completed with results.
• TERMINATE - Cancel a remote service.

Commerce & Costing:

• ESTIMATE - Request a cost estimate from a server for invoking a service.
• EXAMINE - Examine the ongoing cost factors/bill-to-date of a running service.

Services, Leasing, & Transactions:

• REGISTER/UNREGISTER - Announce the availability of a service.
• COMMIT - Confirm and initiate a set of changes or service invocation.
• ROLLBACK - Reset resource or service values to a previous point in their history.
• PROXY, BROKER - Intermediate a resource or service with some cost factors.