Background Information Analysis:
According to RFC 2616, § 9.5, POST is used to create a resource:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
According to RFC 2616, § 9.6, PUT is used to create or replace a resource:
The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers to an already existing resource, the enclosed entity SHOULD be considered as a modified version of the one residing on the origin server. If the Request-URI does not point to an existing resource, and that URI is capable of being defined as a new resource by the requesting user agent, the origin server can create the resource with that URI.
My Question:
So, which HTTP method should be used to create a resource? Or should both be supported?