I can understand your confusion if you were expecting an article which discussed the fundamentals of RESTful interfaces and how it pertains to server client relationships. The intention of the article wasn't as much to introduce the concept of representational state transfer as much as it was, 'how can one use a RESTful API', hence the title, "Using RESTful APIs". I can appreciate that the introduction lacked adequate explanation of REST, itself -- and it's more than reasonable to expect an article on RESTful APIs to cover, well, RESTful APIs.

That said, I am thankful for your constructive criticisms and will revise my post so that its content is more satisfactory.

Pak, thank you for the w3 resource. As it says in the reference, it does seem that 256 was the limit for prior implementations; however, it seems my understanding was indeed based on outdated material. In response to your other criticism, which example is never shown so I may add it?

If you have suggestions on topics I should include or other resources I should review before making changes, suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers