Re: Visibility (was Re: Introducing the Service Oriented Architectural style, and it's constraints and properties.

Geoff Arnold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Please let's kill this red herring by using the term API correctly.

An API is an application programming inteface.

HTTP is a protocol. It is not, and does not define, an API.

libwww is an API that supports HTTP. So is java.net. The wininet.dll 
library in the MS world
does the same thing.
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