August 10, 2010

How Ryan Tomayko explained REST to his wife

The web is built on an architectural style called REST. REST provides a definition of a resource, which is what [URLs] point to.

A web page is a representation of a resource. Resources are just concepts. [URLs] tell the browser that there’s a concept somewhere. A browser can then go ask for a specific representation of the concept. Specifically, the browser asks for the web page representation of the concept.

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