Secure Web Application Development: A Hands-On Guide with Python and Django

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M. BakerSecure Web Application Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8596-1_6

6. APIs and Endpoints

Matthew Baker¹  

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Kaisten, Aargau, Switzerland

 

In this chapter, we will begin looking at coding web applications, starting with designing our endpoints: URLs and APIs. These are the building blocks of a web application. HTTP leaves a number of choices to us: what request method to use, what response code to return, what format to use for the request and response body.

We will begin by looking at the anatomy of a URL before exploring REST APIs. These are a specific type of API that leverages the HTTP protocol to enable stateless requests to server-side ...