REST API routes

Hello,

I am testing some API patterns for a potential project on Laravel 5.1 and the results are not clear.

I have defined the following route in routes.php

Route::any('test/api/get', function() {
return $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];

});

When I use curl with with GET verb the results are fine, when I try

curl -X PUT example.com

it says something went wrong.

How's laravel 5.1 handling the verbs of restful? I notice the html forms are using _METHOD as a hidden input to pass the verb. But I assume normal rest api requests are handled as well by laravel?