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HTTP was intended to be a uniform state (that includes files) transfer protocol dating back to the 1.0 days, just as URL/URI's were intended to be a uniform id
by parasubvert 13y ago
HTTP was intended to be a uniform state (that includes files) transfer protocol dating back to the 1.0 days, just as URL/URI's were intended to be a uniform identifier for any source of state.
It just took until 2000 for Roy to call this "REST".