REST
Representational state transfer (REST) is a programming architectural style. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation.
RESTful web services (REST-compliant Web services) allow a requesting system to access and manipulate Web resources using stateless operations. RESTful web services use HTTP methods explicitly by mapping the REST operations to HTTP methods:
Create - POST
Retrieve - GET
Update - PUT
Delete - DELETE
Related terms
HTTP
HTTPS
Web interface