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> I thought perhaps that there had been some chaotic experimental period where people were building APIs on top of HTTP all wrong, and then Fielding came along
by elchief 6y ago
> I thought perhaps that there had been some chaotic experimental period where people were building APIs on top of HTTP all wrong, and then Fielding came along and presented REST as the sane way to do things. But the timeline doesn’t make sense here: APIs for web services, in the sense that we know them today, weren’t a thing until a few years after Fielding published his dissertation.
SOAP 1998
Fielding's Dissertation: 2000
What is this garbage?
- ivan_gammel 6y agoDo you need someone to google that for you? Really not a good way to ask a question. Public APIs as we see them now were not a thing in 2000. There were talks about web services, but that was really different story (see WSDL). SOAP became a standard only in 2003 and it had different set of constraints and purpose.
- cromulent 6y agoTrue, although XML-RPC was around in 1998. http://1998.xmlrpc.com http://1998.xmlrpc.com