Thank you! Perfect response. I'm a systems programmer, mostly working in VHDL, C and assembly. I use and write API's all the time. I've never used an "API" over HTTP before.
I think the confusion comes from a slow divergence of terminology. Web providers offered "API's" to allow people to access their services, these were kind of API's in the sense that an application could use them. However, it seems that for the web development community has begun to think that an API and an HTTP based API are synonymous (they are not!). Hence my confusion here.
I think the confusion comes from a slow divergence of terminology. Web providers offered "API's" to allow people to access their services, these were kind of API's in the sense that an application could use them. However, it seems that for the web development community has begun to think that an API and an HTTP based API are synonymous (they are not!). Hence my confusion here.