Encoding Actions on Resources
Ervin D. Varga · Apress eBooks · 2016
It is important to understand the role of HTTP and what it brings into the picture. The HTTP’s uniform interface relieves clients from learning fundamentally new ways of handling resources. Everything happens via URLs (these are identifiers and handles of resources at the same time) and HTTP regular methods (see the sidebar “Identifier vs. Handle” later in this chapter for more details about them). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.