March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
616 pages
17h 35m
English
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Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style for creating web services; it also provides a set of constraints. The American computer scientist Roy Fielding, who is also one of the authors of the HTTP specification, first defined REST, presenting the REST principles in his PhD dissertation (Fielding, 2000). Web services following this REST architectural style are called RESTful web services, and they allow interoperability between the internet and computer ...
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