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Yes, RESTful requests end up in a big-ass state machine like that: https://raw.github.com/wiki/basho/webmachine/images/http-headers-status-v3.png https://raw.github.com/wiki/basho/webmachine/images/http-hea... It's great because it allows for a great diversity of clients. In exchange the system is much more complex. If you can require your client to behave in a normalized way then all this complexity is not necessary and you're probably avoiding some bugs along the way.