Exactly right. Yet another tightly-coupled aspect of the Web services architecture. *sigh*
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Jon has a knack for putting into words what I’ve tried to say before about UDDI, and indeed the superior composability of Web-friendly services over Web services.

That’s the name of the latest operation added to the Google Adwords API. Yes, it does what you’d expect with that name; it returns an http URI upon which you invoke GET to get your compressed report.

What a totally bizarre hybrid of RPC and hypermedia. Wow.

Come on Google, you’re supposed to be leading the charge. Right? Then sh*t or get off the pot, as they say.

Sandro gets it; “I’m in the slightly odd position of co-authoring the tag URI spec[..], and yet I think most applications of tag URIs would be better off using HTTP URIs”
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