George Reese > Quotes

“For now, let’s just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.”
― George Reese, The REST API Design Handbook

“In fact, the biggest misconception is that you can call your API RESTful if its delivering XML or JSON over HTTP. And that misconception and the resulting proliferation of horrible APIs is likely the source of RESTafarian irritation with the application of the term “RESTful” in an API context. But let’s be brutally honest. Most interactive systems don’t follow this model either.”
― George Reese, The REST API Design Handbook

“Someone consuming an API will definitely notice when the provider of that API is diverging from RESTful principles and it will seriously complicate that consumer’s life.”
― George Reese, The REST API Design Handbook