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REST and HTTP essentials

Methods and what they promise, the status codes worth knowing, the headers that carry the real information, pagination, idempotency keys, rate-limit headers, and why CORS is not a security feature.

What this one covers

·What REST means in practice
·Methods, and the promises they make
·Status codes worth knowing
·Headers that carry the real information
·Query versus body, and pagination
·Idempotency keys and rate limits
·CORS, and what it is not

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