The comments about REST being religious seem to miss the point. It seems Damien is simply saying, "REST isn't the answer for EVERYTHING". That's a pretty straig

The comments about REST being religious seem to miss the point. It seems Damien is simply saying, "REST isn't the answer for EVERYTHING". That's a pretty straight-forward and safe statement to make. REST seems to work well for most web applications because they are typically document-oriented. Sites like Youtube, Flickr, Wikipedia, Gmail, Amazon, etc. are dealing with some form of hypermedia documents. It only makes sense to apply CRUD design concepts to documents. Unfortunately a lot of people have taken REST design concepts too far and try to apply it to everything, which simply won't work. But does this surprise anybody? Its pretty damn hard to saw a 2x4 in half with a hammer. From a "religious" point-of-view; I do find RESTful websites easier to test & diagnose since problems (application state) can typically be isolated to specific URLs. You gotta love it when you can refer to curl as "the truth"! As Paul and many others point out, the web has gotten along fine with just the POST and GET verbs; but a good web application is built upon sensible and addressable URLs.