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I never meant to imply that I don't LIKE REST-like APIs on the web. Holy opposite day, Batman, I think they're fabulous! It's really just an exploration of the ways in which the popular definition of REST diverge from the actual definition, and what we can learn from the original definition to make our REST-like APIs all the better.

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Yes people have tended to miss out the hypermedia constraint and claim to be REST - partly because everyone's been too excited about using HTTP properly to think about anything else, but also just because there's been a lack of tooling and guidelines for designing media types properly. Most people in the REST community agree on that point and now there are useful approaches and technology emerging - restfulie is a great example of this.

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