The API is designed in a way, so you can reuse your existing user system with their permissions, and map it to Etherpad. Means: Your web application still has to do authentication, but you can tell ...

Why would you pick one way to make a request over another? What affordances to higher-level libraries give us? What does "higher-level library" mean? Aside from ease of use from an engineer ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...