With a RESTful service you can create, read, update, and delete resources. This all works well when you're dealing with something like a database assets - but how does this translate to streaming data? (Or does it?) For instance, in the case of video, it seems silly to treat each frame as resource that I should query one at a time. Rather I would set up a socket connection and stream a series of frames. But does this break the RESTful paradigm? What if I want to be able to rewind or fast forward the stream? Is this possible within the RESTful paradigm? So: How do streaming resources fit within the RESTful paradigm?
As a matter of implementation, I am getting ready to create such a streaming data service, and I want to make sure I'm doing it the "best way". I'm sure this problem's been solved before. Can someone point me to good material?