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bct on Aug 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: REST Questions

A lot of people don't get the distinction between HTTP and "HTTP as a transport for some ugliness".

The cute initialism isn't the point. The paper that coined the initialism (and describes why HTTP was designed the way it was and what you'll lose if you use it as a transport for some ugliness) is.

dfox on Aug 18, 2008 [–]

But reality is that the paper is just analysis of how Web/HTTP works and or how it is supposed to work, not introduction of some new approach.

bct on Aug 19, 2008 | [–]

Of course, I don't think that anybody credible disagrees with that.

That doesn't mean that REST "does not mean anything concrete", though.

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