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steveklabnik on Dec 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What RESTful actually means

GitHub is an example of an API that makes use of HATEOS, and is quite real.

jholman on Dec 20, 2015 [–]

Soooorta. Much of GitHub's core functionality involves either logging in (using cookies. not RESTful.) or using Git (not a MIME type. not HATEOS. not RESTful.).

Still, GitHub is a far more complete RESTful example than most.

Wikipedia might be another not-quite-but-pretty-close example.

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