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Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 08 July 2013 22:30 UTC

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On 8 July 2013 15:05, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
>> But it's equally valid to try to pretend otherwise and use GET.  After
>> all, most servers won't actually be allocating any state for these
>> things.
>
> I hope none of them do. It's kind of the main point of the whole draft.

I expect all of them to do so, but not hold clients responsible for
that, so GET is still OK.

>> p.s., I was going to let this slide, but this design is not RESTful,
>> no sense in pretending like it is.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. Which of these six constraints do
> you believe are violated?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#Constraints

Will you think worse of me if I avoid opening this particular can of
worms?  I regret even mentioning it.

I've learned not to use the term RESTful, I should have known better.

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