Oct 14, 2009 · What's the difference between a REST system and a system that is RESTful? From a few things I've read most so called REST services are actually RESTful services. So …

The idea of a RESTful-URL is actually a violation of REST as the server is in charge of the URL structure and should be free to decide how to use it to avoid coupling. If this confuses you read …

RESTful can be used as a guideline for constructing URLs, and you can make sessions and users resources: GET /session/new gets the webpage that has the login form POST /session …

Mar 22, 2009 · What exactly is RESTful programming?Nonetheless, the heart of REST (in practical application) is "don't use GET to make changes, use POST/PUT/DELETE", which is …

Some RESTful services use different resource URIs for update/get/delete and Create. Such as Create - using /resources with POST method (observe plural) at some places using /resource …

In the real world, this happened to me with internet application that had a RESTful server and a relational database with a Customer table that was "wide" (about 40 columns). I mistakenly …

I'm writing a RESTful API module for an application in PHP, and I'm a bit mixed on the verbs HEAD and OPTIONS. OPTIONS Used to retrieve the available HTTP verbs for a given …

I want to make my RESTful API very predictable. What is the best practice for deciding when to make a segmentation of data using the URI rather than by using query parameters? It makes …

With a good RESTful service, it's not necessary to generate WADL (let alone the much-less-well-fitting WSDL) for it because it will self-describe. By “self-describe” I specifically mean that it will …

A restful service could do so with soap (from what I understand). I think the uniform interface though, is unique in that it is a constraint, a requirement of rest, unlike other architectural styles.