Who is Roy Fielding?
- Roy Fielding is a data scientist who was a principal author of the HTTP specification
Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world?
- Because not all machines are able to interpret data in the same meaningful way. This could cause issues with incompatible machines.
What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created?
- They created a protocol that enabled machines to perform GET functions to accurately render the contents of web pages
What does a GET do?
- Sends a request to a specified server to get certain data or resources
What does a POST do?
- Sends data to an HTTP server in order to create or update a resource
What does PUT do?
What does PATCH do?
- Applies partial modifications to a resource