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3. REST
3.1 REST history
REST is the acronym for Representational State Transfer, coined by Roy T. Fielding in his dissertation "An architecture style of networked systems". Since 1994, Roy T. Fielding has been involved in the W3C's work on URI, HTTP, HTML and WebDAV, and was the co-founder of the Apache project, the Web server that powers 50% of the Internet's most popular websites . REST describes the characteristics of the Web that have made it so successful. Roy T. Fielding's explanation of the meaning of REST is as follows: "Representational State Transfer evokes the image of how a well-constructed...
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Bibliography
- (1) - NETCRAFT - February 2017 Web Server Survey. - (2017) https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2017/02/27/february-2017-web-server-survey.html
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