On Sat, December 15, 2012 10:27 am, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> Why are the tokens in Altitude urls called RESTful? This is suggested by
> the handler of the three strategy patterns listed below, which is called
> ALRestfulLocator.

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a protocol for embedding
queries in URLs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

I once documented the use of REST for vendors listing their wares on
Shopping.com.


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