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Yeah, if that's where your URL ended. But what if your URLs kept going? Say you had

    /user/123/followers
or

    /user/123/followers/followers
or

    /user/123/followers/followers/following
? When your URLs have a non-obvious terminus (as is typical of proper REST APIs) it becomes clear that the verb does not belong in the URL path.


So you're saying that we should have a verb instead?

FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWING /user/123


No, the verb is FOLLOW, as in the example you were responding to:

    FOLLOW /user/123/followers/followers/following




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