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That’s far from unheard of in RPC protocols? E.g. the system namespace of xml-rpc.


maybe REST? I think a proper REST system of APIs is designed to be discoverable.


REST is a design principle, not a protocol.

As such you can make a REST system discoverable via e.g. external schemas (commonly OpenAPI) or self-documentation but there is no guarantee that either exists, and while the latter is intrinsic there is no standard discovery mechanism for the former (cf openapi-specification issues 724 or 2128).




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