> If the API is indeed RESTful, and it complies with the > concept that a URI represents an address of a specific > resource I suspect the maintainers

> If the API is indeed RESTful, and it complies with the > concept that a URI represents an address of a specific > resource I suspect the maintainers of both of those APIs are doing it right... ;-) More seriously, almost every API I've seen that tries to be (or claims to be) RESTFUL is just somewhat randomly distributing parameters between the URI, headers, and a post body. > HTTP is not the transport layer. It's an application protocol > meant to convey application data Nope, it was definitely designed as a transport layer, which describes meta-data about content going both ways. You can tell it's not a real application protocol because people shoe-horn serialized data structures in both directions.