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13 March 2026

  • curprev 19:0419:04, 13 March 2026 Dex talk contribs 6,804 bytes +6,804 Created page with "HTTP endpoints are the public “doors” into a system. How those doors are described, exposed, and discovered determines whether an API is usable, evolvable, and maintainable. This article explains what HTTP endpoints really are, how clients discover them, and why good discovery design matters more than most people realise. == Context == HTTP was not originally designed for APIs — it was designed for '''documents linked together'''. APIs inherited HTTP, and with i..."