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		danellis on June 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: pREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing Post... What is the non-HATEOS version of REST? Can you usefully define it?

jholman on June 24, 2017 [–]

In practice it means "HTTP, plus certain conventions about Method and Path that David Heinemeier Hansson happens to like".

I still cannot figure out why anyone would ever want to meet such a standard, other than to trick the ignorant.

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