Picky Picky Game: HTML 4 versus REST
REST is
largely based on using HTTP as originally designed—which
includes respecting the intended semantics of the methods
GET
and POST
(basically, requests that
add or change things should use POST
and not
GET
; requests that view information without
altering it should use GET
, not POST
).
A flaw in the HTML 4 definition makes this
annoyingly
difficult.