REST API flash cards: Novice level
12 REST API terms at the Novice level, as flash cards.
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Terms in this deck
- API
- A set of rules that lets one program ask another for data or actions.
- Client and Server
- The client asks; the server answers.
- Endpoint
- One address an API offers: a method plus a path.
- HTTP
- The request-and-response language of the web.
- HTTPS
- HTTP over an encrypted connection.
- JSON
- The text format most APIs use for data.
- Request
- What the client sends: method, URL, headers and an optional body.
- Resource
- A thing an API lets you work with, identified by a URL.
- Response
- What the server sends back: a status code, headers and usually a body.
- REST
- An API style built around resources with URLs, used through standard HTTP methods.
- URL
- The full address of a resource on the web.
- Web API
- An API you call over HTTP, usually getting JSON back.