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HATEOAS is an important design element of APIs that contributes to the uniform interface constraint of REST. However, HATEOAS will be underutilized if the clients aren't programmed to expect and utilize hypermedia content. In these cases, RESTful APIs are not much more than ways to access status resource content. Therefore, in order for HATEOAS to be worthwhile, both clients and servers need to support hypermedia content and rely on it to make state changes in the resource.
