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The biggest anti-pattern of all: marketing your API as RESTful, when it is really more RPC-like.

I agree on all points of this article. The only nitpick I have is that tunneling through GET/POST is strictly necessary for HTML forms, since they do not support other verbs.

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> The only nitpick I have is that tunneling through GET/POST is strictly necessary for HTML forms, since they do not support other verbs.

Only if you ignore AJAX in its entirety. Yes, the browser's capabilities are limited, as it must be a common denominator and can't describe every situation, and thus, can only GET/POST in certain forms.

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