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REST
- Who is Roy Fielding?
answer- he wrote the first web servers that sent information on the internet.
- Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world?
answer- They are specifically designed to to talk to only a few certain group of machines.
- What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created?
answer- they made a way to apply verbs, like git, put and delete to the url which helps the computers talk to each other.
- What does a GET do?
answer- when applied to a url it tells the browser to to get the url and present a webpage, or an image.
- What does a POST do?
answer- It adds something from one system to another system.
- What does PUT do?
answer- replaces something from one system into another system.
- What does PATCH do?
answer- does a partial update to an application or system.