A long-running task is an operation that requires a considerable amount of server resources and/or time.
Although Roy Fielding has not mentioned anything about the long-running tasks in his dissertation, we can combine the REST principles with other HTTP RFCs to design a viable solution.
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In REST, compression, like encryption, happens to a representation in transit, and it must be undone via decryption before the client can use the representation.
In REST, statelessness refers to when the client is responsible for storing and handling the session-related information on its own side.
Content negotiation is a key facet of REST APIs that empowers clients and servers to agree on the format and language of data exchanged.
A REST API is called idempotent when making multiple identical requests to an API has the same effect as making a single request.