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I mention Content-Type in that I think that discussions around it have largely been a distraction from what I consider the core innovation of REST: the uniform
by recursivedoubts 4y ago
I mention Content-Type in that I think that discussions around it have largely been a distraction from what I consider the core innovation of REST: the uniform interface.
I recognize that many of the few people who still talk about REST would disagree with me on that.
- Aeolun 4y agoYou cannot have the uniform interface without the content type, unless you intend to stay strictly theoretical. Most programmers have zero interest in staying theoretical, and since everyone had shit to do, and nobody felt like making a whole new content type for their applications, we ended up with only the parts that were immediately useful to people being adopted.