On: What RESTful actually means

[AReallyGoodName]

Webdav predates REST but it essentially ticks all of the boxes that make up REST. Plenty of providers offer Webdav cloud storage (basically all of the smaller ones since they can't really afford to maintain their own API).

[e12e → AReallyGoodName]

It does? The REST thesis came out in 2000, looks like the (and AFAIR) WebDAV came later?

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

http://www.webdav.org/specs/

[AReallyGoodName → e12e]

WebDav dates back to 1996. You've just got a list of the latest rfcs.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2518

[drrogers → AReallyGoodName]

I wonder why all the larger ones don't support it.

Also the existence of WebDAV doesn't really demonstrate that merely adhering to REST will make your clients portable.