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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by ori_b on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:07PM (#4456217)
His whole argument can be distilled down to "REST isn't a protocol, it's a protocol pattern". True enough, but I'm surprised that this is news to anyone working with REST.

Edit: I said "API", should have said "Protocol"

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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by podperson on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:04PM (#4456469)
Actually I thought his whole argument was down to "REST isn't a protocol the way HTTP is a protocol" -- look the "P" stands for "protocol" -- which (a) is true in some specific technical sense, and (b) isn't important.

I quote: "This style has no agreed protocol." and "The core missing pieces of any RESTful web service protocol are agreed standards on media type and link metadata." OK, so what?

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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by deno on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:43PM (#4456681)
> OK, so what?

Well, when you try to fill in the blanks you get one of these:

1) AtomPub, which is a relatively simple protcol but has very limited application

2) oData/WSDL, which are powerful but complex

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