How to find if a webpage uses REST or SOAP web services?

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Is there a way to find out if a webpage uses REST or SOAP web services in it's back-end? If there is a way then what is it?

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

You can check the network requests using a browsers developer tools.

Checking the headers for text/xmland a SOAP envelope might indicate SOAP

If its using REST you can check to see the header method is using GET, PUT, POST, DELETE with application/json which might indicate REST

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And an in depth explanation of what I mean by "might be":

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