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coherentpony on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesla Model S JSON API

> Very few concepts have been so hugely corrupted to mean exactly the opposite of what they mean as REST. This is probably the least REST API in existence.

This is the first time I've seen URL APIs not being referred to as RESTful. What makes it non-RESTful?

steveklabnik on June 30, 2014 [–]

It's not according to both RESTs:

Fielding's REST says absolutely nothing about URLs or their structure.

Everyone else's REST (and, the HTTP spec) says that you shouldn't use GET to cause a side effect.

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