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		peteretep on May 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be ide... > REST is HTTP This is untrue. I hate to quote from Wikipedia, but it sums it up quite nicely: "REST is not a standard in itself, but RESTful implementations make use of standards, such as HTTP, URI, JSON, and XML" More colloquially: REST is what happens when people mix up transport layers in their head.

tzahola on May 1, 2018 [–]

HTTP is an implementation of REST.

phamilton on May 1, 2018 | [–]

This is more the point I was trying to make.

peteretep on May 1, 2018 | | [–]

It's also untrue.

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