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Re:REST Is the New Soap by mkettn on Friday October 18, 2019 @05:42AM (#21289908)
I've never understood all this excitement about REST. If you need a special service, just code a small shell program and register it at /etc/inetd.conf. if you need security, pipe your text file thru OpenSSL/pgp or use ssh instead.
Re:REST Is the New Soap by rhinoceraptor on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:06AM (#21290298)
Because you need HTTP to write web applications?