as much as it says that in a fielding-style rest system the URLs and verbs are opaque, he spends a lot of time nitpicking over the format of urls. unless the r

as much as it says that in a fielding-style rest system the URLs and verbs are opaque, he spends a lot of time nitpicking over the format of urls. unless the resource in question is exposed as an endpoint, the url and verb are handled by the link or form discovered by the client, and invisible to the client. as for versioning - versioning the mime types is a useful thing, but it does still make sense to use a different url if you are using different links and forms to navigate the service.