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Interfaces

From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:21:34 -0800
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To: public-web-http-desc@w3.org

I'm seeing some confusion when people say "interface" in relation to  
the Web; a RESTifarian will say that the interface is uniform --  
e.g., GET, PUT, DELETE, POST -- but there's also a colloquial use of  
"interface" to indicate the set of resources that a Web application  
exposes; e.g., "the Flickr REST interface."

Anybody have a better term for the latter (that isn't too unnatural)?

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Mark Nottingham
mnot@yahoo-inc.com
Received on Monday, 27 March 2006 19:24:06 GMT

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