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Fielding Dissertation: CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)

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Ryan Daigle (2007-03-14). REST & ActiveResource (http://ryandaigle.com/assets/2007/3/14/REST_ARes.pdf). Retrieved on 2007-05-11 11:18.

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[edit] Grammar Abused

GET http://addressbook/contacts/destroy/1

Implied action [destroy] conflicts with HTTP method [GET]

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Represent Resources with URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier)

• ‘contacts’ = http://addressbook/contacts
• Different representations of the same resource (html, xml, json)
• contacts.html, contacts.xml etc...

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