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A comment on Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation. Parent comment

Re:Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation by dragonwriter on Monday June 29, 2020 @09:37PM (#23685584)
I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, RPC over HTTP post is a perfectly valid style of API. It's not REST. It may in some sense be simpler, but being simple for a narrow interface isn't the hallmark of REST (being simple on an “across a whole world wide network of diverse resources that don't share common ownership and control” is more REST’s thing.)
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Re:Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation by WClayFerguson on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:42PM (#23695647)
My entire discussion has been around the assumption that there's some very specific WebApp that needs to communicate to a server (likely over HTTP too), and that I like RPC and verbs in my API.

What you seem to be stating is that there's more to that on the web and that HTTP has a reason to exist. I agree. It makes sense for the language of the browser itself to be basic CRUD-type calls to servers (which is what HTTP is)

But for a specific RPC interface for a specific WebApp client, trying to meld THAT API into HTTP (the goal of REST) is awkward as all hell and that IS what everyone's using it for.

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