[aikah]

I thought the idea was to make an API behave like a webpage by using hyperlinks that represents the state of the application, so in theory a "smart" client could navigate an API autonomously like a human interacts with a web page ? Because otherwise it's no different from RPC.

[anthonybullard]

I think you are thinking of HATEOAS. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS?wprov=sfla1