InfoWorld

How to implement idempotent APIs in ASP.NET Core

Idempotent APIs protect your application from duplicate requests caused by network issues or even client-side mistakes. Here’s how to create them in ASP.NET Core. When designing your APIs, you should ...
InfoWorld

How to use API versioning in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of API versioning in ASP.NET Core to manage the impact of changes to your APIs on your clients When developing APIs, you should keep one thing in mind: Change is inevitable. When your ...
TheServerSide

Idempotent HTTP methods and REST

The Hypertext Transport Protocol requires all HTTP methods to declare whether they are idempotent or not. With an idempotent HTTP method, multiple invocations always leave the data on the server in ...
TheServerSide

HTTP request methods explained

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...