---
id: 1841
title: "Why REST Supplanted SOAP for Cross-Application Communication"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/why-rest-supplanted-soap-cross-application-communication"
published_at: "2024-03-11T03:19:59Z"
tags: ["http", "soap", "json", "api", "rest", "web-services"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1841"
lang: en
---

# Why REST Supplanted SOAP for Cross-Application Communication

## Summary

Traces why REST displaced SOAP for web services: its simpler resource-oriented HTTP model and JSON payloads beat SOAP's XML envelopes and rigid standards for most use cases.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2024-03-11T03:19:59Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/why-rest-supplanted-soap-cross-application-communication
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1841