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		extension on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RESTduino - Arduino hacking for the REST of us What you're describing might be called an HTTP API. A REST API would be based on hypertext, standardized media types, and opaque URLs.

bct on April 21, 2011 [–]

True. Now that you point it out, it is odd that I chose to focus on that one divergence.

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