What is a characteristic of RPC APIs compared to REST APIs?

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Martin Schouten · Accepted Answer

Authentication is done over provisions for the service caller and vice versa for RPC API, and REST API uses HTTP headers for authentication.

Martin Schouten · Answer

All communications between the client and server must be stateless for RPC API, and REST API is stateful.

Martin Schouten · Answer

The architecture model for RPC API is resource-focused, and REST API is procedure-focused.

Martin Schouten · Answer

The data payload must be in JSON format for RPC API, and REST API allows JSON and XML formats.

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