Inklings: Clarifying REST

Clarifying REST

🕑 2011-09-19T01:23:47+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An extremely clear overview of what REST is and isn’t, especially its explanation of the importance of the HATEOAS constraint, which is the key to REST. The key failing of many supposedly RESTful protocols (such as those of OnAPP, Twitter, &c.) is their ignorance of this constraint.