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Re:RESTful thinking considered harmful by silon4 on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:24AM (#3776375)
POST /orders/42?pay=1

POST was always about actions, not just resources.

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Re:RESTful thinking considered harmful by RyanMcGreal on Friday March 30, 2012 @01:35PM (#3777118)
An HTTP request has two parts: a resource (URL) and a method. Expressing your method in the resource rather than the, um, method muddles the two.
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