REST, URIs, and Aesthetics

Kendall: Webs at Rest and In Motion
A report back on discussed REST best practices. Which he says really are a study in the aesthetics of URI design.

More REST

• Rest Roundup
• Rest and the Real World
• RESTwiki

Personally, I’m sold on REST, but then there isn’t much to sell – if you love the web, and can embrace TBL’s Cool URIs Don’t Change, your 95% of the way there. ### A Caveat

When you divorce URIs from their physical implementation you must: comunicate, document, tack proclamations to the door, to let people know what you’ve done. Especially in large, geographically diverse, volunteer organizations, like Indymedia. Using the Apache trickery ForceType application/x-httpd-php I cleaned up our archive system. But to this day, I get confused emails from people trying to correlate urls to directories.