How to make REST requests more user friendly like RPC?

Question

I've been highly considering creating a REST service rather than RPC but it seems to me that a client/user will have to write a significant amount of code to achieve the same thing compared with an RPC service. Moreover, implementing a REST service would require a user some basic knowledge about REST. To illustrate in PHP:

REST

• To send GET, POST, PUT, DELETE request the user must send his request using CURL
• Of course this requires his server to have CURL enabled, not good for some shared host
• Aside from the data parameters the users needs to send, CURL requires additional lines of code to send the request.

RPC

• To send a similar request with an RPC service, the user simply calls a URL together with data parameters. ie: example.com?foo=bar&baz=quz

Is there a way to make REST as "easy" as RPC. I'm thinking of encapsulating REST request with RPC methods but that breaks the whole idea isn't it?

Answer 1

REST does not force you to use GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. it just means that a single URL represents a single content. you can also implement a RESTful behaviour like this:

GET /index.php
GET /item.php?id=x
POST /create.php
POST /update.php
POST /delete.php

even create, update and delete could be done with get requests...