Common Guidelines
Some guidelines are already common within the larger REST communities:
- Applications should expose many URIs (possibly an infinite number of them), one for each Resource (any resources in your applications should be unambiguously accessible via a unique URI)
- Cookies representing IDs into a server side session are not RESTful
- Combinations of resources (i.e. a particular account viewing results a particular database query) can be RESTful if (and only if) the combination can be represented as a URI.
- RESTful URIs should facilitate "cut & paste" (that's the notion of "transfer" of the "representational state")
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