REST has nothing to do with HTTP. That is like saying that poetry has means using english to make sonnets that rhyme.
REST stands for representational state transfer. It is a software architecture style that sets up constraints on objects, and other data structures within a distributed network.
That is it. HTTP attempts to provide a way of doing REST, but you can even use HTTP to do things in a non-rest way.
REST has nothing to do with HTTP. That is like saying that poetry has means using english to make sonnets that rhyme.
REST stands for representational state transfer. It is a software architecture style that sets up constraints on objects, and other data structures within a distributed network.
That is it. HTTP attempts to provide a way of doing REST, but you can even use HTTP to do things in a non-rest way.