I don't know why everyone wants to downvote this comment. It's absolutely right. I would add that REST has nothing to do with pretty URIs, JSON formatting, ver

I don't know why everyone wants to downvote this comment. It's absolutely right. I would add that REST has nothing to do with pretty URIs, JSON formatting, versioning, query strings, and more misconceptions that people seem to mistake for the architectural style. There is nothing that isn't RESTful with URIs like "/a89f30e9" instead of "/:type/:id". Even TBL thinks URIs should be opaque: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque