[blasdel]

You simply do not understand REST. At all.

Caring about what URLs look like is at best irrelevant, but normally extremely counterproductive to actual RESTful implementation. If you're building URL strings to make requests (save for get-based forms) anywhere in any of your clients, you're doing it wrong. Wanking about pretty URLs just encourages you to go in the wrong direction.

In true REST, URLs are opaque identifiers. They might as well be UUIDs. The only way you're supposed to get one to request is in a response from the server.

Hypertext. Is. The. Engine. Of. Application. State.

[stanleydrew]

This is unnecessarily personal and offensive. Note that I never said URLs must be pretty.