REST

acronym

web devprogramming

Stands for: Representational State Transfer

An architectural style for web APIs built on HTTP methods and resources.

Representational State Transfer (Fielding, 2000) models an API as resources addressed by URLs and manipulated with HTTP methods. It is the dominant style for web APIs, contrasted with the older, envelope-based SOAP.

Also known as: rest, RESTful

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