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Isn't it more "cache friendly" to use urls that address objects by path, instead of addressing them by query parameters? Like http://foo.com/rest/suite/foo/bar is more likely to be cached than http://foo.com/rest/suite?dir=foo&file=bar or http://foo.com/rest/suite?file=bar&dir=foo


That is possible (for stupid caches anyway, on purely technical grounds there should be no difference), it also looks much better to developers/users and is much, much easier to map/dispatch in most frameworks.

I was just talking about the restful part of the thing, your urls can look like this:

    http://example.org/?wubwub=9cec6c6faef8f7ccefe1bbf409368f1e3d0fa626
and still be part of a completely and perfectly restful service.




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