Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term Representational State Transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Fielding is one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Conforming to the REST constraints is often referred to as being...
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Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term Representational State Transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. Fielding is one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Conforming to the REST constraints is often referred to as being ‘RESTful’.
The REST architectural style was developed in parallel with the HTTP/1.1 protocol, based on the existing design of HTTP/1.0. The largest known implementation of a system conforming to the REST architectural style is the World-Wide Web. In fact, REST can be considered as a post-hoc description of the features of the Web that made the Web successful (Zhang, 2004). REST exemplifies how the Web’s architecture emerged by characterizing and constraining the macro-interactions of the four components of the Web, namely origin servers,...
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