HTTP: Request/Response Client Request GET /vnav/labs/PHP/HTTP.php HTTP/1.1 Host: loadaveragezero.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 ... Server Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) Content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8 ...
RESTful Application Cycle Resources are identified by URIs ↓ Clients communicate with resources via requests using astandard set of methods ↓ Requests and responses contain resource representations informats identified by media types ↓ Responses contain URIs that link to further resources