Web API Development for the Absolute Beginner: A Step-by-step Approach to Learning the Fundamentals of Web API Development with .NET 7

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I. DominteWeb API Development for the Absolute Beginnerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9348-5_2

2. Introduction to the Web

Irina Dominte¹  

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Iasi, Romania

 

In this chapter, we will explore how the internet works and how information travels over the internet. We will learn what happens every time we navigate to a website. All the small blocks in this chapter are very important for any web developer, even if they only write APIs or plan to use other application models, such as .NET MVC or Razor Pages.

We will learn what a request and a response are, how we can add meaning to them, and how to leverage the underlying protocol. We will use these concepts extensively ...