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njharman on Feb 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: General principles for good URI design for RESTful...

The difference is people who's goal is to follow some pure, academic definition of REST and people who want to make elegant web services. So,

Pedantic wanks "no worse".

People working in reality "wtf would you ever do that?"

wahnfrieden on Feb 4, 2012 | [–]

What a strawman. Just because URI layout is orthogonal to REST does not make it a non-concern to REST proponents. It has nothing to do with REST. It is a good practice. Both are true.

It's only confusing if you think REST nebulously means merely "good web API design" or "good usage of HTTP."

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