What is the difference between HTTP and REST?

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No, REST is the way HTTP should be used.

Today we only use a tiny bit of the HTTP protocol’s methods – namely GET and POST. The REST way to do it is to use all of the protocol’s methods.

For example, REST dictates the usage of DELETE to erase a document (be it a file, state, etc.) behind a URI, whereas, with HTTP, you would misuse a GET or POST query like ...product/?delete_id=22.

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