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I was thinking something more along the lines of proprietary extensions to HTML5. Isn't that what everyone's doing now?
by AsymetricCom 13y ago
I was thinking something more along the lines of proprietary extensions to HTML5. Isn't that what everyone's doing now?
- manarth 13y agoDon't we stick everything into the body of a JSON object in a GET request these days?
- _greim_ 13y agoSure, plenty of people do that, but it's a horrible way to design a web API in my view, and it's definitely not a pattern anybody else should be encouraged to follow.
- icebraining 13y agoYeah, it's SOAP all over again.
- _greim_ 13y agoThe article doesn't present a compelling case for it, though. It points out some quirky aspects of HTTP's history, and concludes "therefore let's remove the verbs" while ignoring the fact that lots of people are literally using the verbs, successfully, right now, and the fact that there's this whole history of SOAP and REST and why having arbitrarily lots of verbs might be a bad thing. It should at least dimly acknowledge those things, before baldly asserting "let's remove the verbs and let people define their own stuff." That's what SOAP did and it failed.