REST (REpresentational State Transfer) as a concept is very human orientated. The idea was a sort of academic abstraction of html. but it can be boiled down to:

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) as a concept is very human orientated. The idea was a sort of academic abstraction of html. but it can be boiled down to: when you send a response, also send the entire application needed to handle that response. It is unfortunate that collectively we had a sort of brain fart and said "ok, REST == http, got it" and lost the rest of the interesting discussion about what it means to send the representational state of the process.