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		arethuza on Dec 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What RESTful actually means Well, strictly speaking if your having to explain the structure of your URLs then it's not really fully REST (because of HATEOS) and I don't think there is any requirement for a RESTful interface to return JSON. But having said that I've got the point where I don't really care - if I can interact with an API from curl without too much difficulty I don't care if the API is fully REST or not.

andreyf on Dec 25, 2015 | [–]

I'm deeply offended that you called my URL structure un-REST-ful and challenge you to come up with an API spec that's more REST-ful than mine.

CoffeeOnWrite on Dec 20, 2015 | [–]

The parent was being sarcastic.

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