Tuesday, February 28 2006 - blog
This is illustrative of a rather fundamental and all-too-common misunderstanding: REST-RPC.
Of course, the project description includes the obligatory quote about Amazon:
Amazon offer both a SOAP and a REST-compliant API. Tim O'Reilly expects as much as 85% of the usage to go via the REST interface; see his blog entry "REST vs. SOAP at Amazon".
I've already made my thoughts known on the alleged RESTfulness of the Amazon API.
REST != POX
Thanks to Stefan Tilkov for the link.
REST != POX, but XML documents over HTTP is RESTful.
Yup, even with method names in the query strings so long as GET's remain free of side effects and the semantic of the underlying protocol verb is preserved. Mark, I think we agree on something ;)It's been my experience that people have a hard time realizing that they can use multiple different HTTP verbs with the same URI. The concept of doing both a GET and a POST on the same URI is pretty foreign to J. Random User.
Fully agreed on all points!(gasp! 8-)
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