What is an endpoint in simple words?

Question

Information Security

Tell me, plz, what is an endpoint in simple words? How is it different from path, route, url. Whether a particular url or http request is an endpoint or not. Thanks

Answer 1

There are slightly different interpretations of this concept. For example like this. Each api service has an endpoint that you need to access, for example, send an http request. Usually this is the url. That. endpoint is the url. Or like this. url includes a route (the main part of the service address) and an endpoint (the part of the url that contains, for example, the name of the method to be called). There is one route and it has several endpoints. That. here endpoint is just part of url.

Answer 2

Endpoint is the final protected device. A computer with a corporate antivirus or a mobile phone with it. Although it depends on the context, which you did not clarify.

Answer 3

If we talk about the web, and most often this term is used on the web, then
your application can hang on mysite.com
AND it can have endpoints
mysite.com/healthcheck
mysite.com/action.php