title: Why does including an action verb in the URI in a REST implementation violate the protocol?
body: <p>I'm finding it necessary to understand why including action verbs in the URI violates the REST protocol for URI syntax? When I read the following article, I sense that too many people are making too much noise about verbs, and that they should be making more noise about content types:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumMethods" rel="noreferrer">RestWiki: Minimum Methods</a></p>
  
  <p>In a perfect world, client browsers would all support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE for request operations. However, only GET and POST are supported, which means we're stuck trying to identify operations that should be PUT and DELETE by using common action verbs in the URL like view, create, edit, and delete.</p>
  
  <p>How does this violate the spirit of the REST architectural principles, and what is the roadblock you experience by putting something like "delete" into your URL instead of using "deletion"?</p>