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How well does REST work on other protocols besides HTTP?
Are there any good examples for protocols who use REST or might use REST?
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REST is not necessarily tied to HTTP. RESTful web services are just web services that follow a RESTful architecture. HTTP is a contract, a communication protocol and REST is a concept, an architectural style which may use HTTP, FTP or other communication protocols but is widely used with HTTP.
REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. REST is almost like an architectural style, it doesn't care about the building materials per say. It can be used with HTTP, FTP, or any other communication protocol. REST just happens to be very commonly used with HTTP.
The classic example of a non-RESTful system using HTTP is something which treats HTTP as if it was a transport protocol, and with every request sends a POST of data to the same URI which is then acted upon in an RPC-like manner, possibly with the connection itself having shared state.
I don't think you are going to find many, but here is one for embedded systems.
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