HTTP/1.1, the dominant HTTP protocol for creating Web applications since the early 1990s, led to the development of REST API interfaces for server-to-server and mobile communication. But a number of ...

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Google laid the groundwork for the latest improvements to the HTTP protocol that has dominated Web applications and RESTful APIs for the past 20 years. This work resulted in the release of the HTTP/2 ...

The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

There are two main HTTP protocols: Version 1.0 and Version 1.1. I could spend an entire article going over the differences between the two. For brevity's sake, the key takeaway is that HTTP 1.1 was ...

In Febuary of this year, Microsoft announced its Interoparability Principals, a memo outlining the principals and goals that the company will aim to achieve as part of a broader standards-based ...