>HTTP != REST though, as the article notes.
The article might note it, and Roy might insist on it, but nobody cares.
For all intents and purposes, what people call REST in practical use is RPC over HTTP with JSON responses.
But then these people are just very wrong. No point encouraging them either :)
The entire industry is just people who are very wrong hitting critical mass until no one remembers what was right.
Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008)
by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:28PM
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> HTTP != REST though, as the article notes.
Well, HTTP itself is the archetypical REST API, though.
Even the HTTP monopoly is changing. There are lots of new protocols (HTTP2, QUIC, WebRTC) that work besides firewalls and things like ALPN gives a standardized way to tunnel new protocols over an encrypted connection.