On Dec 16, 2007 5:49 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@...> wrote:
> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is a variant of what I call as SOAPy REST (http://subbu.
> > org/weblogs/ main/2007/ 10/soapy_ rest.html
> > <http://subbu.org/weblogs/main/2007/10/soapy_rest.html>
> > ). Whoever wrote this API had no idea of why they were providing a
> > resource centric interface. Yet another HTTP API!
>
> No, it's even much Much MUCH worse -- it uses GET for non-retrieval actions.

I nominate it for the 2007 Restless awards, in the much contested category of

"things that claim to be RESTful but do side effects in their GETs"
along with the ever popular
"SOAP endpoint in disguise" category

I know this mailing list has not, historically, had such awards, but
now is as good a time to start as any....