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		dllthomas on Nov 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some REST best practices Without breaking clients permanently. Running clients would not be able to continue their current interaction.

tptacek on Nov 17, 2014 [–]

Yeah, I was just about to go edit that. "Cool URIs don't change" and all that. It would still be bad to change URLs; you just wouldn't need to update the client API code.

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