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by p_l 2298 days ago
REST is often used as a very, very limited transport model for a two-bit, buggy, incomplete and incoherent clone of SOAP, yes.

Unfortunately, neither REST nor SOAP are understood by majority of developers writing code for them (to this day, I insist that the real issue with SOAP was people using IDE code generation without ever studying how SOAP works)