- From: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:57:07 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- CC: public-web-http-desc@w3.org
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > 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)? I see API used commonly in the latter example. Or perhaps more generally: "service(s)" Cheers, L. -- Home: http://www.ldodds.com | "Simplicity is the ultimate Blog: http://www.ldodds.com/blog | sophistication" -- Leonardo da Vinci
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