After my blood cooled off a little, I feel a bit bad about posting such a harsh response. I stand behind all the points I raised, but should have made them in a

After my blood cooled off a little, I feel a bit bad about posting such a harsh response. I stand behind all the points I raised, but should have made them in a more constructive way. We build RESTful APIs using HTTP verbs and current conventions for a reason. APIs are made for machines, not for people. There's always a balance because hands-on poking around is nice to have, but curl isn't very "hard" and with CORS you can build documentation with live examples right into the browser.