What is the difference between HTTP and REST?

Question

After reading a lot about the differences between REST and SOAP, I got the impression that REST is just another word for HTTP. Can someone explain what functionality REST ad

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From You don't know the difference between HTTP and REST

So REST architecture and HTTP 1.1 protocol are independent from each other, but the HTTP 1.1 protocol was built to be the ideal protocol to follow the principles and constraints of REST. One way to look at the relationship between HTTP and REST is, that REST is the design, and HTTP 1.1 is an implementation of that design.