<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BASE href="data:"><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">I thought this was a very useful distinction. I find myself (as a pragmatist) more drawn to Lo-REST, but I do feel guilty about not using Hi-REST. At least now I have a name for what I feel guilty about. ;-)</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">-- Ernie P.</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><A href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=473cc14f-4668-43cf-b5b9-0178f9271296">http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=473cc14f-4668-43cf-b5b9-0178f9271296</A><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV style="text-align: auto;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; "><A href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2006/03/18/20235.aspx">http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2006/03/18/20235.aspx</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><I>To get a more accurate picture of what we've done so far, I'll break this category in two: </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><B><I>Lo-Rest</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><I>, which is the use of HTTP GET (or equiv) for information retrieval/query, and </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><B><I>Hi-Rest</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><I>, which is characterized by the use of HTTP PUT and DELETE (or equiv) for doing update.</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><I> </I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>