Re:PUT vs POST in REST
by danielh on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:59AM
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The problem with many articles about REST is that they revolve around the question how to make your API more RESTful, and rarely answer why (and if) it actually makes sense to do so.
I think that proper use of HTTP methods is one of the core ideas of REST, but I understand that one might have to take shortcuts like _method to satisfy real-life needs while calling it RESTful to satisfy the buzz-word hungry PHB.
Let's just agree not to do something like GET /foo?_method=DELETE
I think that proper use of HTTP methods is one of the core ideas of REST, but I understand that one might have to take shortcuts like _method to satisfy real-life needs while calling it RESTful to satisfy the buzz-word hungry PHB.
Let's just agree not to do something like GET /foo?_method=DELETE