[dragonwriter]

> The real problem with REST and HTTP is that it’s too easy to put middleware in between that doesn’t understand REST, just HTTP.

REST isn't a protocol, but a major point of REST’s direction to use the underlying protocol as specified is that if your are doing REST, middleware doesn't need to understand REST, only the underlying protocol.

And the problem here wasn't middleware that wasn't aware of REST, it was middleware that was misconfigured and requesting data from the wrong remapped URLs and relaying the responses faithfully. There was nothing failing to respect REST semantics involved.