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Re: [dispatch] Building Blocks for HTTP APIs - next steps

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 31 July 2020 13:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Building Blocks for HTTP APIs - next steps
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On 31 Jul 2020, at 10:51 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I understand that it says "HTTP API" because we don't want to say "REST
> API" (and I agree with that).
> 
> That said, I think many people understand "HTTP API" to be an API for -
> well - HTTP, such as HTTPUrlConnection, Servlets, or XMLHTTPRequest -
> and these are explicitly *not* in scope here.
> 
> Maybe "HTTP based APIs" or "HTTP based Services" works better.

In my experience, the people who this WG are targeting will understand "HTTP APIs." 

Note that "Building Blocks for..." has been added to the full WG name, which should help address this.


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