Yes, that's more or less the solution given in the SO answer to which I referred. I like your idea of giving the created resources human-friendly names/paths; i

Yes, that's more or less the solution given in the SO answer to which I referred. I like your idea of giving the created resources human-friendly names/paths; it may be that the POST data can even indicate a preferred name, though the server may need to modify the name to preserve uniqueness, etc.