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Roy Fielding: I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API.

I am amused by the people who are valiantly trying to decipher Roy.

While I don’t really have much to add, here is what I have...

• Without intending to take anything away from Roy’s (valid) criticism on labeling, REST isn’t an all or nothing proposition.  One can get significant value from partial adoption.
• One can only go so far by studying HTTP.  Hypertext links are more a characteristic of HTML than of HTTP.  Similarly, Code on Demand is a characteristic of the combination of HTML and JavaScript than of HTTP.