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		debacle on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough? It has nothing to do with REST. REST != HTTP

gbaygon on April 10, 2012 [–]

The point is that regardless of naming, it's not standard HTTP, nor convenient for the developer consuming the api to return soft 404's.

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