General discussion about REpresentational State Transfer, the name given to the architectural style which describes the best behaved subset of the World Wide Web (circa 1993), as determined by Roy Fielding.
... What I meant to say was, applied REST architecture is ideal for guiding the development, maintenance and upgrading of systems whose lifespan may well
... Uh, look back at those quotes of Roy's I excerpted, as he makes the argument better than I can. The key to the REST style is that out-of- band information
... It didn't work at all, at first. However, if the intermediary is instructed that it must-revalidate, it makes a HEAD request to the origin server, the