title: Where in a HATEOAS architecture do you specify the HTTP verbs?
body: <p>I was reading an <a href="http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas">article</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS">HATEOAS</a> and while I understand the idea of providing the URLs for further actions in the response, I don't see where you specify what HTTP verbs should usedto interact with those URLs.</p>
  
  <p>For example, from <a href="http://restcookbook.com/Basics/hateoas/">What is HATEOAS and why is it important for my REST API?</a>, how from this response</p>
  
  <pre><code>GET /account/12345 HTTP/1.1
  
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
  &lt;account&gt;
      &lt;account_number&gt;12345&lt;/account_number&gt;
      &lt;balance currency="usd"&gt;100.00&lt;/balance&gt;
      &lt;link rel="deposit" href="/account/12345/deposit" /&gt;
      &lt;link rel="withdraw" href="/account/12345/withdraw" /&gt;
      &lt;link rel="transfer" href="/account/12345/transfer" /&gt;
      &lt;link rel="close" href="/account/12345/close" /&gt;
  &lt;/account
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>do you know if I should issue an HTTP <code>PUT</code> or <code>POST</code> to <code>/account/12345/close</code>?</p>