Timeline for What is the difference in HTTP callout and SOAP & REST api?
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| Apr 18, 2020 at 8:08 | comment | added | love gupta | Aren't all HTTP callouts essentially the REST API calls under the hood? I understand that HTTP is a protocol and REST uses HTTP as protocol for making calls. Can you confirm if all HTTP calls are REST calls? | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 7:26 | comment | added | rpax | @RyanElkins You are right. Avoids confusions and goes right to the point. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | Ryan Elkins | @rpax Yeah, I got a little tripped up there. HTTP and REST/SOAP are both protocols (the P in HTTP and SOAP both stand for protocol) but for different things. I had to call one of them something else to avoid confusion. I was trying to not cause more confusion by getting in to why they were both protocols but still different things. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | rpax | Good answer! One thing: Shouldn't be HTTP the protocol and REST & SOAP the method ? :) | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 20:01 | comment | added | Vishal | Thank you Ryan. Your examples gave me a really good idea. | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 20:00 | vote | accept | Vishal | ||
| Aug 25, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | Adrian Larson♦ | Nailed it. Inbound vs. outbound. | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 17:24 | history | answered | Ryan Elkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |