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What does the HTTP POST method ask the target resource to do?

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  1. Only return response headers
  2. Process the enclosed representation
  3. Rename every requested resource

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  1. RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html Checked 2026-10-10.

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