He is a guy who helped write the first web servers, that sent documents across the internet… and then he did a ton of research explaining why the web works the way it does.
Because the large majority of developers were busy writing layers of complex specifications for how to access data in a different way that isn’t nearly as useful or eloquent, known as SOAP.
HTTP is a protocol it’s capable of all sorts of neat stuff that people ignore for some reason. It is capable of describing the location of something anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. It’s the foundation of the web. What does a GET do? Retrieve information from other servers.
What does PUT do? If a system wants to replace something in another system, it uses an HTTP verb of PUT. What does PATCH do? If a system wants to to do a partial update in another system, it uses an HTTP verb of PATCH.
Roy Fielding, is a guy who helped write the first web servers, that sent documents across the internet… and then he did a ton of research explaining why the web works the way it does.His name is on the specification for the protocol that is used to get pages from servers to browsers. How the web work? The first is the first part of website ,which is the protocol HTTP, tells the browser what protocol to use. That first part is on of the most important breakthroughs in the history of computing, Because it is capable of describing the location of something anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. It’s the foundation of the web. You can think of it like GPS coordinates for knowledge and information. The whole world wide web is built on an architectural style called “REST”. REST provides a definition of a “resource”, which is what those things point to, and a web page is a “representation” of a resource. The URLs tell the browser that there’s a concept, somewhere. A browser can then go ask for a specific representation of the concept. “Web Services” or “APIs” is the way computers use those same protocols to send messages back and forth to each other. “redirect” is the ability to talk to all machines about all the stuff that’s on all the other machines. There are multiple “verbs” the protocol uses to talk to other machines, for example each of the systems would retrieve information from each other using a simple HTTP GET. If one system needs to add something to another system, it would use an HTTP verb of POST. If a system wants to replace something in another system, it uses an HTTP verb of PUT. Things I want to know more about I want to know about API’s.