[munk-a]

One point this article objects to is the (ab?)use of HTTP status codes for indicating object status (i.e. 404 Your student doesn't exist). HTTP status codes are an extremely loose and flexible standard and I think that semantically most of the "RESTful" uses here are perfectly in line with expectations. Shift your thinking for a moment to consider that instead of `/user/12` linking to a script it's actually just a flat file containing some information about the user - the 404 response when the user doesn't exist is perfectly reasonable. The requestor shouldn't really care whether the request was fulfilled by apache checking file existence or some PHP script. In fact, webservers are just another kind of dynamic responder and it's important not to mystify their internal workings.