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A. GirettiCoding Clean, Reliable, and Safe REST APIs with ASP.NET Core 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9979-1_1

1. Introducing HTTP and REST

Anthony Giretti1  
(1)
La Salle, QC, Canada
 
Before we dive into ASP.NET Core 8 and API development, let’s first go back to the basics of any web application. Whether a website is run from a browser or a web service (web API), it’s always the same principle: a client and a server will communicate together; a client will send a request to a server, which will then respond to the client. This is all possible with the magic of the HTTP communication protocol. Under this protocol, data can be transported using different ...

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