... I don't see why we should care. Anyone is "authorized" to write any software. Anyone is authorized to perform a GET on any URI. The server will respond ...
The HTML form is just one way of discovering a RESTful "service" or, better named, a family of resources with a commen URL pattern (which hopefully is...
Stefan Eissing
stefan.eissing@...
May 1, 2008 8:53 am
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... If you have a hypermedia application client/agent that interprets the resources it receives and then uses that resource as the basis for determining the...
... Well, it may be that many people use URI templates as a shortcut for using hypermedia but there *are* valid uses of URI templates that do not entail...
... Hi Peter, So, are you saying that you embed the template in the representation for http://foo.example/metrics/232? If so, why wouldn't you just put a 2...
... That reminds me, I meant to get back to your earlier question to me about deep linking. In the approach I was talking about, deep linking isn't an issue,...
... Those URLs might very well be cool, but there's just no way to communicate that (IIRC HTTP has a 1 year age limit - a good thing). But declaring a space of...
... will ... considered ... Agreed. But what if the metrics provider explictly documented in its API documentation that "we do not guarantee that [any...
... For the same reason that you would bother using Google search. Look in the HTTP spec for the phrase "all modern information systems ...". ... That's one...
... Sorry for being thick, but I'm not quite sure the point you're trying to make here. The closest I could find was in 1.1 Purpose: "Practical information...
Hi, I'm still trying to figure rest out. Let's see if I hit a sweet spot or if I'm just missing something (more likely, please forgive me). I have several...
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Stefano Masini ... First, it sounds like you want PUT, not POST. PUT means "create or replace the entity"; POST means "accept...
For the case of image tags (like flickr, etc.) maybe you could expose the tags as resources. Then if you want to add the tag "chunkybacon" to a set of images,...
... The specs don't have any URI length restrictions, but current browsers do, so it depends on what your client is. BitBacker, the system I've used this...
... In practice these URLs are "cool", I suppose. When we change the shapes of URLs we always implement redirections from the old to the new shapes. My...
Microsoft has proposed a bulk format so you can process all your requests in one go, using multipart messages as the payload, with each message being an http...
... By definition, it's either discoverable or it's not REST. If the representation linking to that resource tells the client how to construct the URL, it's...
... I don't feel that PUT is a natural way of assign "folksonomy" tags to pictures; POSTing tag URIs to an image resource or vice-versa feels more "right" to...
... long lived URLs or a >hypermedia application poor in long lived URLs, just a few "bootstrap" URLs? Hypermedia as the engine of application state! ...
... Metadata is probably a resource about a resource, so it could be said that it is in itself a resource that can be PUT to for updates, or POSTed to the...
Hi I don't get whats wrong with just using a POST on some meaningful URI that will update all the metadata you want. According to HTTP RFC : POST is for -...
... I fail to see how the server can instruct the client in any meaningful way that urls in the form of http://server/resource/1,2,3,4 represent a pool of ...
(Apologies for top posting; my response was getting huge and fragmented, so I summarized.) Let's get specific. If you're going to implement my method, you...
... This is where I think we differ: I believe infrastructure issues should be dealt at the infrastructure level, not pushed at the app level. By defining your...
While this approach looks better than pipelining, it is more like SOAP than HTTP. What is the difference between this, and say, packaging the same parts as...
... Several benefits: - Multipart messages are a standard way to represent compound payloads - You don't enforce the use of xml If you were to compound those...
Without consulting any writings or people, describe the uniform interface in REST. Consider your effort a charitable act toward a layperson. -- Etan Wexler. ...
First of all thank you all for the great responses this thread got. They were very helpful to a starter like me. So thank you. But now let me get this...
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