no, it's probably anti-REST anyhow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6068113/do-sessions-really-violate-restfulness http://stackoverflow.com/questions/606811

no, it's probably anti-REST anyhow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6068113/do-sessions-really-violate-restfulness http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6068113/do-sessions-reall... though your sessions do maintain some server context. you cannot let the client decide when to expire a session, for example. pure REST is a pipe dream. there are many things that work sub-optimally if adhering to strict rest as it pertains to http. see the second answer in that thread.