I agree. I recently built an API for a project of mine and I decided to make it REST-like, but not use the HTTP method to distinguish actions. In some circumsta

I agree. I recently built an API for a project of mine and I decided to make it REST-like, but not use the HTTP method to distinguish actions. In some circumstances you can only use one (JSONP, for example), so I sacrificed some purity for "the real world". This seems like it goes a bit over the line, however.