Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs

Re:Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs by rue on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @06:49AM (#1978777)

URLs really have very little to do with REST beyond uniqueness, even though it is popular in "RESTful" APIs to encode objects in URLs. A POST /keypair/create or whatever could just as well be POST /1234567890123. The important bits of REST are representations, state(lessness) and relationships or links.

I think the best place to start from would be the Fielding dissertation: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch....

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Re:Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs by blasdel on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @08:52AM (#1978993)

Thank you, it's nice to have another member in the REST sanity brigade: http://searchyc.com/comments/%252Brest+hypertext

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