A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...
I'm not asking how to detect duplicate POST requests. I'm asking if we are supposed to. According to RFC 2616 (section 9.5), POST is used to submit some sort of record/resource/data to the server ...
Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...