Actions on the site

Question

Computer networks

For example, there are actions on the site: delete news, edit and view.
Somehow it became not convenient to create a separate action (mvs) for each action.
Passing the flag (action=delete) is also somehow not beautiful.
I heard somewhere that such a thing (view, delete, edit) can be passed directly through the protocol or something like that.
Please tell me how it is done there, somewhere I saw it on Habré, but I lost the link, but I don’t remember the name at all.

Answer 1

The method by which the request is sent can be different.
The most popular and sufficient in most cases: GET/PUT/POST/DELETE.
Read about REST - everything is written there.

Answer 2

First, you still have to create action. Secondly, only GET and POST are guaranteed to work in all browsers. Is it ugly to pass the flag? I'm sorry you're worried about such little things.