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The 7-bit Internet · The Accidental Businessman
Contrast that with SOAP, which is nominally text based, but is orders of magnitude more complex than REST because it is built with the idea that humans will never really have to read or understand it. I’ve been in this business for two decades, and the only way I know to hand-debug a SOAP transaction is with a hammer and a straitjacket2. Heck, I’ll take an old-school EDI transaction over SOAP any day.