What is the correct term for an HTTP/REST/Web API?

Wha开发者_JAVA百科t do you call an API that is exposed via URI requests?

It seems everyone uses a different word and it makes Googling, or even skimming a page for the right API tedious.

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What you're describing is a web service.

A web service has an API that can be RESTful and HTTP is the protocol used for information exchange.

This is a more modern variant of web services. Another technology before REST is using WSDL, an XML based language for describing web services that used SOAP for its protocol.

Yes, there are a lot of buzzwords around these concepts.