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REST makes useful to be able to do:

- UPDATE/course/324234 - GET /course/324234 - DELETE /course/324234

with predictable results.

Of course, it works better when you have a clear hierarchy of resources, and/or it make sense to do UPDATE/GET/DELETE to the resources with clear results.

I think it works for some cases very well, but I don't think is always the way to go. That said, there are a sensible number of "RESTful APIs" that are not RESTful at all, they just uses HTTP.



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