How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

One of the major shortcomings of RESTful web service design is the historic lack of any strong technology that can be used to effectively describe the service contract interface between the server and ...

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Overview: FastAPI and AIOHTTP deliver speed and real-time response for modern applications.DRF remains a secure and reliable choice for enterprise-level project ...

In Part 2 of this series on using the new Web API 2 API, I'll be covering the client side of things. I'll go over how to create a Windows Store App within Visual Studio 2012 that consumes the Web API ...

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

MarketLive, an e-Commerce technology company, has publically released ML API, a web service that enables online retailers to access the MarketLive Engine and facilitate real-time data exchange between ...