General discussion about REpresentational State Transfer, the name given to the architectural style which describes the best behaved subset of the World Wide Web (circa 1993), as determined by Roy Fielding.
I think I may not have explained myself very well. Let me try to clarify. (Apologies if I'm just repeating myself...) I'm talking about the best practice
... You might be able to use 207 Multi-Status as defined in WebDAV (RFCÂ 4918 section 13), but even with that it still requires complex logic on both ends of
... Correcting some hasty mistakes above: Suppose POSTing the entry results in creating entry 2341 on thread 12. --> POST /entries/12 <-- 303 Location =
... It doesn't. The 303 doesn't redirect to the URI of the created resource; it redirects to the URI of "the response to the request" per 2616. In Aristotle's
... Couldn't you send 303 unconditionally , redirecting to a URI that gives the result of the request? That page could return your 201 and Location header,