- Working with REST APIs, you'll most likely…send your requests through HTTP.…Does that mean REST and HTTP are intrinsically linked?…No, but a large percentage of REST APIs are available…through the web using the HTTP protocol.…So although not all REST APIs…use the HTTP protocol, the RESTful ones do.…Let me explain.…HTTP, short for HyperText Transfer Protocol,…is the protocol your web browser uses to access…hypertext documents on the world wide web.…
That world wide web lives on the internet…alongside other services like SMTP…for email, various instant messaging…services, video streaming, and so on.…As you have learned, REST is a set of six…software architecture design constraints…that produce a specific type of service.…There's nothing in that definition of REST that stipulates…that service must run on HTTP and therefore the web.…You could just as easily make a REST service running…on FTP or SMTP or some other protocol.…
REST and HTTP are not linked;…they're just a convenient pairing.…When a REST service runs on the web over HTTP to give us…
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2/13/2018- What is a REST API?
- Who or what interacts with REST APIs?
- Anatomy of a REST request
- HTTP status messages
- Request/response pairs
- GET, POST, and DELETE
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome2m 15s
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1. REST API: Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface
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The RESTful librarian2m 30s
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What is a REST API?4m 36s
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Sidebar: URL vs. URI2m 41s
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The six constraints of REST4m 48s
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How REST relates to HTTP1m 33s
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2. Request
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Discovery4m 16s
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Resource3m 40s
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Methods (Verbs)4m 31s
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3. Response
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Response header2m 6s
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HTTP status messages3m 59s
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4. Request/Response Pairs
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Request/response pairs2m 2s
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GET3m 15s
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POST3m 55s
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PUT/PATCH2m 50s
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DELETE4m 39s
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Conclusion
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Next steps52s
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