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In many ways, the World Wide Web itself, based on HTTP, can be viewed as a REST-based architecture. In every way, the WWW is a REST-based architecture. REST is
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In many ways, the World Wide Web itself, based on HTTP, can be viewed as a REST-based architecture.
In every way, the WWW is a REST-based architecture. REST is an analysis of the web, as it existed at the time. There is no more perfect exemplar of REST.
This is a crucial point. Fielding's paper is about how and why the web works. It's not, per se, about how the web should be used to make network services, though many have tried to derive that from it.