Revision 1143273 of GET

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<p>The <strong>HTTP <code>GET</code> method</strong> requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using <code>GET</code> should only retrieve data.</p>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Request has body</th>
   <td>No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Successful response has body</th>
   <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">{{Glossary("Safe")}}</th>
   <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">{{Glossary("Idempotent")}}</th>
   <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">{{Glossary("Cacheable")}}</th>
   <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Allowed in HTML forms</th>
   <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox">
GET /index.html
</pre>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Title</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{RFC("7231", "GET", "4.3.1")}}</td>
   <td>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

<p class="hidden">The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out <a href="https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data">https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data</a> and send us a pull request.</p>

<p>{{Compat("http/methods", "GET")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{HTTPHeader("Range")}}</li>
</ul>