REST: Is it okay to use an HTTP DELETE to deactivate a record?

REST: Is it okay to use an HTTP DELETE to deactivate a record?

References

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15205938/rest-is-it-okay-to-use-an-http-delete-to-deactivate-a-record

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http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/subaccounts

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https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs

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http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/interacting.html

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http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

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http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HbaseRest

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334279.aspx

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http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tools/http-interfaces