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Stack overflow has a tag for with over two thousand questions and a description that reads:

PUT is a HTTP method which requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied URL.

It also has a tag for with about two hundred questions and a description that reads:

HTTP PUT Uploads a representation of the specified resource.

It seems to refer to the RESTful semantics of a PUT request, but essentially, both tags refer to the same thing - the HTTP PUT method.

I don't have the score in either tag to suggest them as synonyms, so I'm bringing this up in MSO.

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This needs a bit of cleanup before we can do a synonym/merge. The tag seems fairly tilted towards HTTP put, but there are a few questions related to other usages of put. Like putting an item into a dictionary, ftp put, and so on. But these usages are very very small, and can be retagged quickly.

I wrote this small query: [put] is:q -[rest] -[http*] -[curl] -"method" -"http" -"HTTP" -"request" -"calls" which returns 367 questions. Within this, I could just see 4 that needed to be retagged in the first page. So if someone could go through this set, we can then get the tag cleaned up and ready for synonymization.

Post cleanup, you can get a moderator to add the synonym.

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    Sane for all the HTTP verbs, I think [post] will have some questions about blog posts or similar, [get] may have questions about getters or getting from a dictionary, etc. And they also have [http-post] and [http-get]. Commented Mar 14, 2025 at 6:11

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