--- title: "GET request method - HTTP | MDN" published: 2025-07-04 description: "The GET HTTP method requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET should only be used to request data and shouldn't contain a body." source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods/GET date: 2026-11-05T01:28:39.156Z --- Baseline Widely available This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015. - [See full compatibility](#browser_compatibility) - [Learn more](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Baseline/Compatibility) The **`GET`** HTTP method requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using `GET` should only be used to request data and shouldn't contain a body. **Note:** The semantics of sending a message body in `GET` requests are undefined. Some servers may reject the request with a [4XX client error](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status#client_error_responses) response. | Request has body | No | | --- | --- | | Successful response has body | Yes | | Safe | Yes | | Idempotent | Yes | | Cacheable | Yes | | Allowed in HTML forms | Yes | http ```html GET ["?"] HTTP/1.1 ``` [``](#request-target) Identifies the target resource of the request when combined with the information provided in the [`Host`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Host) header. This is an absolute path (e.g., `/path/to/file.html`) in requests to an origin server, and an absolute URL in requests to proxies (e.g., `http://www.example.com/path/to/file.html`). [`` Optional](#query) An optional query component preceded by a question-mark `?`. Often used to carry identifying information in the form of `key=value` pairs. The following `GET` request asks for the resource at `example.com/contact`: http ```yaml GET /contact HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com User-Agent: curl/8.6.0 Accept: */* ``` The server sends back the resource with a [`200 OK`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/200) status code, indicating success: http ```yaml HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:18:33 GMT Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT Content-Length: 1234 ``` | Specification | | --- | | HTTP Semantics# GET | - [HTTP request methods](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods) - [HTTP response status codes](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status) - [HTTP headers](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers) - [`Range`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Range) header - [`POST`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods/POST) method ## Help improve MDN [Learn how to contribute](/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/Getting_started) This page was last modified on by [MDN contributors](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods/GET/contributors.txt).