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0 pointsmercutio23y ago0 comments

You don’t mention Content-Type anywhere I could find in your post.

I don’t think hypermedia is only for humans.

You can totally do REST for computers. You’re just supposed to divide knowledge along Content-Type boundaries.

It’s true people mostly don’t do this, but it works great when people bother to describe rich Content-Types.

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I mention Content-Type in that I think that discussions around it have largely been a distraction from what I consider the core innovation of REST: the uniform interface.

I recognize that many of the few people who still talk about REST would disagree with me on that.

Aeolun3y ago

You cannot have the uniform interface without the content type, unless you intend to stay strictly theoretical.

Most programmers have zero interest in staying theoretical, and since everyone had shit to do, and nobody felt like making a whole new content type for their applications, we ended up with only the parts that were immediately useful to people being adopted.

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