> REST is HTTP This is untrue. I hate to quote from Wikipedia, but it sums it up quite nicely: "REST is not a standard in itself, but RESTful implementations m

> REST is HTTP This is untrue. I hate to quote from Wikipedia, but it sums it up quite nicely: "REST is not a standard in itself, but RESTful implementations make use of standards, such as HTTP, URI, JSON, and XML" More colloquially: REST is what happens when people mix up transport layers in their head.