What is a RESTFul Web Services?

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What is a RESTFul Web Services?

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Mostly, there are two kinds of Web Services which should be remembered in your next API testing interview:

1. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) - an XML-based method to expose web services.
2. Web services developed in the REST style are referred to as RESTful web services. These web services use HTTP methods to implement the concept of REST architecture. A RESTful web service usually defines a URI, Uniform Resource Identifier a service, provides resource representation like JSON and a set of HTTP methods.