Week 2 - Readings: HTTP and REST

http basics

• HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• tateless, application-layer protocol for communicating between distributed systems, and is the foundation of the modern web.
• allows for communication between a variety of hosts and clients
• HTTP a stateless protocol. The communication usually takes place over TCP/IP, but any reliable transport can be used.
• current version of the protocol is HTTP/1.1