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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by that_james on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:48AM (#32083497)
REST is not HTTP! I didn't mention REST for a reason :)

But that's a good point about the transport layer.

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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @12:58PM (#32085444)
> REST is not HTTP!

REST over HTTP is HTTP used according to spec, because the REST architectural style involves using the underlying protocol(s) per spec, but only the subset of such protocols that corresponds to REST semantics (but in HTTP’s case, since HTTP/1.1 is itself designed around REST principles and HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 maintain HTTP/1.1 semantics, that’s pretty much the whole spec.)

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