May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
HTTP and REST
This chapter discusses the first protocol in the transport layer of the network programmability stack: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). As you probably already know, HTTP is one of the primary protocols used over the Internet and intranets for client/server communication. As discussed in Chapter 1, “The Network Programmability and Automation Ecosystem,” the protocols in the transport layer of the programmability stack enable network devices to expose an API using protocols such as NETCONF and RESTCONF or native REST APIs through which the device can be managed. This chapter covers HTTP in detail.
Note
Do not confuse the transport layer of the seven-layer OSI networking model with the transport layer ...