On: How to Design Better APIs

[BulgarianIdiot]

The HTTP request APIs pass through any method name you write.

The HTML forms only support GET and POST. Try it.

[inopinatus → BulgarianIdiot]

There is no mention of HTML in these recommendations.

The recommendation is perfectly good for any API using HTTP as the substrate. The wisdom of using HTTP as a protocol substrate is questionable, but having made that decision the verbs it supplies work perfectly well.

Incidentally, the HTML living standard supports three form methods, not two: get, post, and dialog. Which rather reinforces the point that HTML != HTTP.

[boredtofears → BulgarianIdiot]

How is that relevant to REST API’s? You don’t generally post to rest endpoints from a form anyways for a lot of good reasons.