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Thinking In Rest - Part 2
So last time I covered the concept of resources (if you haven't read it yet, you should check that out here first) and the idea that when browsing the web you aren't looking at "pages" but instead you are looking at resources that happen to be formatted as pages. As it turns out, an HTML page is a pretty convenient format for a resource when a human is accessing it. Unfortunately, HTML is pretty poor for machine consumption - so how do we provide resources to client programs?
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Thinking in REST
I've been reading blogs around the .NET community lately and there seems to be some serious confusion about what exactly REST is. Is it a SOAP replacement? Is it a definition of how to prepare data for consumption by AJAX clients? And what does it have to do with all this new MVC stuff we've been hearing about? What is it exactly?