This is pretty much the best description of how the Web works that I’ve ever read. REST makes sense, the Web has proven that; why is there even a debate about this? Sure, maybe there are a few places that would benefit from SOAP, but the vast majority of the time REST can’t be beat.
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Nice article, but wrong in subtle and important ways:
_You can think of [a URL] like GPS coordinates for knowledge and information_
That was true at the beginning of the web, but not since 1998. A URL gets you part of the way there, but not all of the way. Not since the invention of *customization for users*, or displaying different data based on the *context* of the request.
A lot of Web 2.0 APIs think that since blogs have permalinks, then everything can have permalinks, and therefore a REST-ful API can be used for a majority of the web.
I’m just not one of those people.