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17th August 2008 - Link Blog

Explaining REST to Damien Katz. I didn’t know that it was Mark Baker back in 2002 who first pointed out that SOAP was flawed because it ignored the architecture of the Web as defined by Roy Fielding’s Ph.D thesis.

Posted 17th August 2008 at 11:19 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 17th August 2008.

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