Comment by drewcoo

I have seen monstrosities claiming to be rest that use HTTP but actually have a separate set of action verbs, nestled inside of HTTP's.

In a server holding a "deck of cards," there might be a "HTTP GET <blah-de-blah>/shuffle.html" call with the side-effect of performing a server-side randomization operation.

I just made that up because I don't want to impugn anyone. But I've seen API sets full of nonsense just like that.