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by icebraining 2899 days ago
If you make an analogy, and then the analogy breaks, I'm not sure that shows the flaw is in the original concept.

A RESTful architecture needs an Uniform Interface, yes, but their it's doesn't have to be an "action" or anything specific. POST has a definition, and everyone handling the requests can rely on it. That fulfills the constraint.
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mi100hael 2899 days ago
It's not really an analogy, though. If you have a POST request triggering some random sequence of actions, what's the resource? What representation of state is being transferred?

It's not REST, it's just HTTP.

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