Experiences with REST

20 April, 2011. It was a Wednesday.

Every system I’ve ever integrated with that refers to itself as “RESTful” is not REST. It’s RPC over HTTP.

Every system I’ve ever built that I called “RESTful” is not REST. It’s RPC over HTTP.

One of those dawning, sad revelations that you get when you read a really good book on REST.

But all in all, RESTful systems are still 1000x better than working with SOAP-based web services, which always leave me feeling dirty.

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