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We're doing a fair amount of AJAX development these days, and ran into a problem with the REST convention. Thought I'd put my notes here in case somebody else runs into this.

REST, short for "Representational State Transfer" is a new-ish approach to managing state in a web application. With PHP, you typically manage state using its session features, which pass a cookie back and forth from the browser. Then the server needs to store values for each browser session, mirroring in some fashion the data in the browser with a cache on the server.