Protocol Parameters

HTTP protocol parameters represent the content of an HTTP Request or Response message.

The following is a list of HTTP protocol parameters:
  • HTTP Version
  • Uniform Resource Identifiers
  • Date/Time Formats
  • Character Sets
  • Content Codings
  • Transfer Codings
  • Media Types
  • Product Tokens
  • Quality Values
  • Language Tags
  • Entity Tags
  • Range Units

Uniform Resource Identifiers

REST APIs use Uniform Resource Identifiers, URIs, to represent the resource state in either absolute or relative form.

URI does not represent a specific location of a resource.

Uniform Resource Locators

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) is a deviant of URIs. It represents the specific location of a resource.