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		seliopou on Aug 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0 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.

_3u10 on Aug 10, 2013 [–]

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

FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWING /user/123

seliopou on Aug 10, 2013 | [–]

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

    FOLLOW /user/123/followers/followers/following

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