HTTP - hyper text transfer protocol was a standard developed by Tim Berners-Lee in CERN as a solution to academics to share hypertext documents for research. We can thank him and his genius for inventing the web.
However Tim was not trying to solve for the problem of how to make simple APIs so that our programmer customers can easily control Iguana X. Iguana X is an integration engine - it’s not a document management solution like Tim was building.
Concepts from HTTP like HTTP methods and HTTP error codes which were designed for documents would just make our APIs more complicated.
We simplified our API design to not have to worry about what method to use or what HTTP codes we are using. Our APIs will work with most of the common HTTP methods like POST/GET/PUT/DELETE etc. - you can ignore the type of HTTP request and HTTP error code and just call our APIs without ceremony.
The beautiful thing about that is most of our APIs work across the entire cluster of Iguana X instances - it’s just a matter of passing in the server_guid parameter. For a practical example of figuring out showing how easy it is to figure out our APIs read this guide.is the protocol used over the internet between web browsers like you are using right now and web servers like the one serving up this website.
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