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Tilting at Windmills


Damien Katz: "The web is built on REST. Therefore REST is good" Bullshit

I’m not sure what the purpose is behind creating a strawman based on a caricature of what some people view as best practices and then proceeding to shoot it down.

RFC 2068 was published in June of 1999.  Roy’s Dissertation was published in 2000.

$ curl -s http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm | grep -i delete | wc -l
0

Update: Leonard Richardson demonstrates the dogma-free approach to the subject that you will find in RESTful Web Services.