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A lot of people don't get the distinction between HTTP and "HTTP as a transport for some ugliness". The cute initialism isn't the point. The paper that coined
by bct 18y ago
A lot of people don't get the distinction between HTTP and "HTTP as a transport for some ugliness".
The cute initialism isn't the point. The paper that coined the initialism (and describes why HTTP was designed the way it was and what you'll lose if you use it as a transport for some ugliness) is.
- dfox 18y agoBut reality is that the paper is just analysis of how Web/HTTP works and or how it is supposed to work, not introduction of some new approach.
- bct 18y agoOf course, I don't think that anybody credible disagrees with that. That doesn't mean that REST "does not mean anything concrete", though.