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Assuming your web app supports deep linking, like an AngularJS one would.

Assume basic crud of Foo. So list, create, edit and delete.

If a user bookmarks in your app an edit page eg/http://mydomain.com/foo/123, thanks to deep linking you now skip over the list part of navigation.

So the user's browser hits:

http://example.org/#/foos/1

This then tells AngularJS I want Foo 1.

In the Angular code it has '/Foo' + route.id 

From a hypermedia perspective how does the app know to get foo 1 from the REST API?

How does the application do this?