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You probably never heard about these, but these are the best for Binary protocols. If you know something else, or better please post. BEEP: http://www.aspl.es/vortex/ BSON: http://bsonspec.org/ (Binary Json)
CBOR [0] is a proposed standard that seems much more efficient than BSON - check out the appendix [1]. [0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049 [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049#appendix-E.6
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Yeah. I've found a weird dichotomy in the general push to use "REST" for web APIs, but then certain aspects (true statelessness, for instance) are met with blank stares.
True statelessness? Even if you disregard POST as "not true REST", the PUT and DELETE methods involve changing state. REST is an acronym for "representational STATE transfer", and is all about dealing with state in an simple and transparent way, not about avoiding it.
Also, I have never read anything implying POST requests are incompatible with REST.