REST
REST is an architectural style for distributed systems that identifies resources by address and handles them through stateless requests.
REST, short for Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style for working with resources in distributed systems, including the web. Roy Fielding described it in a 2000 doctoral dissertation. Its constraints include identifying resources with URIs and keeping client requests stateless; REST is not itself a separate communications protocol.
REST-style APIs commonly use HTTP. REST differs in role from SOAP, a messaging protocol, and MCP, a protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data.
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