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		dragonwriter on Nov 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination “bot designed with advance knowledge...” was an unfortunate typo for “not designed with advance knowledge...” Yes, advance knowledge makes self-description superfluous.

recursivedoubts on Nov 23, 2021 [–]

Bots can crawl a link graph, but that seems to me to be a relatively primitive use of a uniform interface when compared with a human interacting with a hypermedia system.

Does that strike you as well?

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