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0 pointsmasklinn15y ago0 comments

> HTTP's design was just heavily influenced my ReST so it happens to be good at it.

REST was extracted from HTTP. It's not that HTTP was influenced by REST, it's the exact opposite, REST is a formalization of HTTP.

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strmpnk15y ago

Actually, that's not true. ReST was developed in parallel with HTTP 1.1. It used the basics from HTTP 1.0 to express some of the new ideas. You can read about the original idea in Fielding's disertation here: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...

If it were an extraction of anything, it wouldn't have been HTTP but existing ideas in scaling web architectures in general at the time.

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