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Ask HN: Why do API providers don't follow RESTFul principles?

1 points by sidcool 8y ago

I have seen several API endpoints which are Verbs. e.g. GET /validate_user POST /save_post_data And these APIs are from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc. Can't wrap my head around what's so wrong with RESTful principles.

stephenr 8y ago
Sounds like the API's you're talking about are some flavour of RPC. So rephrase your own question: what's wrong with RPC?
- sidcool 8y ago
  I don't know about RPC much. Does RPC endpoint follow different conventions?