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		silon4 on March 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RESTful thinking considered harmful POST /orders/42?pay=1 POST was always about actions, not just resources.

RyanMcGreal on March 30, 2012 [–]

An HTTP request has two parts: a resource (URL) and a method. Expressing your method in the resource rather than the, um, method muddles the two.

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