UWS as a REST protocol

[Doug Tody]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Reworking Roy's example: 
> http://blabla.edu?service=cutout&POS=301,22&recipe=bombayduck

> The REST alternative is to send an HTTP GET request to the service endpoint 
> of http://blabla.edu/cutout/301/22/bombayduck.

One encounters this sort of example in theoretical discussions of REST,
but in the real world of the Web, a GET has request parameters 99.99%
of the time.  So long as the GET does not have side effects it probably
qualifies as RESTful in the real world.

 	- Doug