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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by lttlrck on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:40PM (#4456360)
REST's protocol is HTTP. REST isn't an API, but you can create RESTful API's.

Yawn.

Edit: The first three sentences on the Wikipedia article are all you need to know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by tripa on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:15PM (#4456519)
REST's protocol is not HTTP. Quoting the very page you linked:

> REST was initially described in the context of HTTP, but it is not limited to that protocol.

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