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alexchamberlain on Feb 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What exactly is RESTful programming?

REST is not RPC; well, I don't think of it that way anyway.

RPC gives server parameters and asks it to actually do something, whereas REST asks for a representation of some resource.

sopooneo on Feb 2, 2012 [–]

I keep hearing that, but I don't understand exactly what it means. As far as I know, RPC in this case means "remote procedure call". So could someone provide simple examples of one thing that would be valid for RPC and a different thing that would work for REST?

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