REST

1. Who is Roy Fielding?
   • Helped with first web servers
   • explained why web works
   • his name is on protocol used to get pages from servers
2. Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the 3.machines in the world?
   • wernt designed for that. Just need to talk to a small group of machines instead of three big ones.
3. What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created?
   • applys verbs to nouns. HTTP GET happens on the URL typed in and comes back with web page
4. What does a GET do?
   • Gets stuff
5. What does a POST do?
   • ADDS SOMETHING TO ANOTHER SYSTEM
6. What does PUT do?
   • replaces something in another system
7. What does PATCH do?
   • partial update to another system

cite

• A Conversation about REST with my brother (https://gist.github.com/brookr/5977550)