... Perfectly good HTTP API practice; REST, not so much. The point of media types is to provide loose coupling based on shared understanding of how the...
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Jørn Wildt
jorn_lind_ni...
Jan 8, 2013 8:04 am
Hi Eric ... wire, so I've never understood why this solution is so prevalent in REST discussions. Just media types, which are agnostic as to what "type" of ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Jan 8, 2013 10:42 am
... From hypertext. NOT from knowledge of resource type coupled via custom media type (vnd.order*). It seems like you're asking how to inform the client that...
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Jørn Wildt
jorn_lind_ni...
Jan 8, 2013 9:39 pm
... This is my mistake, using the term "client" wrongly, sorry. According to the dissertation, a client is the library that connects to the web - and the thing...
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Keith Hassen
erewh0n
Jan 9, 2013 5:25 am
First of all, thanks for the replies and perspective on REST. Backing up to the original question it seems like your particular take on it is that there's no...
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Alexander Johannesen
shelterit
Jan 9, 2013 5:48 am
Hiya, ... I think there needs to be made some distinctions between a shared understanding of models and a shared understanding of a resource in that model....
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Jørn Wildt
jorn_lind_ni...
Jan 9, 2013 6:45 am
If you work with generic media types like plain XML, JSON and(X)HTML (and others) then there is absolutely no reason to version those through the content-type...
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Keith Hassen
erewh0n
Jan 9, 2013 12:37 pm
Yeah we definitely make the distinction between the internal representation and the representation exposed to clients. The changes I'm thinking about are...
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Keith Hassen
erewh0n
Jan 9, 2013 12:48 pm
Thanks, the link below is interesting. I think the rules you listed below are good ones and generally make sense. Maybe it is *almost* always true that we...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Jan 12, 2013 1:48 pm
A new version of I-D, draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-02.txt has been successfully submitted by Erik Wilde and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Jan 14, 2013 10:09 am
A new version of I-D, draft-wilde-xml-patch-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Erik Wilde and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:...
19255
risseraka
Jan 14, 2013 8:38 pm
HELO all, Let me first say that this mail list, combined with a great amount of blog posts scattered here and there, is a gold mine! I intend to not only be a...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Jan 15, 2013 7:30 am
... Yes. You can think of query parameters to work sort of like the WHERE-condition in an SQL select statement. ... The issue with using a new URL path segment...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Jan 16, 2013 4:21 pm
hello. the two main changes in this updated version are as follows: - the media type now is application/xml-patch+xml, since the new media type suffix registry...
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Dey, Santanu
santanu_apigee
Jan 19, 2013 8:18 am
Friends, Your comments and reviews welcome on my recent webinar effort on REST APIs. This is the last one on the series. API Facade Pattern: Synchronous to...
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risseraka
Jan 24, 2013 1:03 pm
... I'm not sure if you mean parallel as in "mutualy exclusive" or as in "combinative". There is a case where a program is looked up by a timestamp with an...
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Skills
skills.matter
Jan 28, 2013 3:56 pm
REST architectures are becoming increasingly more common, both on the internet and within the enterprise. Behind most of these REST APIs is a domain model...
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unmesh_joshi
Feb 8, 2013 6:03 am
Hi, For building secure RESTful services, its common practice to have digital signature (HMAC hash) in the Authorization Header, along with the secret key id....
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Feb 8, 2013 10:59 am
A new version of I-D, draft-wilde-xml-patch-02.txt has been successfully submitted by Erik Wilde and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:...
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Erlend Hamnaberg
ngarthl
Feb 8, 2013 11:36 am
Check out varnish (no affiliation), vmod-digest. https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-digest -- Erlend...
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Unmesh Joshi
unmesh_joshi
Feb 8, 2013 11:22 pm
Thats useful is we are using varnish. But nothing for Apache. One reasonable way seems to be using something like noodle or j2ep and add hmac authorization...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Feb 11, 2013 5:05 am
Hi, trying to wrap my head around the implications of using generic patch media types (e.g. json-patch[1]) vs. specific ones, e.g....
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Feb 11, 2013 7:44 am
... media types (e.g. json-patch[1]) vs. specific ones, e.g. application/vnd.bigco.customer-patch. ... it's tunneling out of band knowledge. ... the (abstract)...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Feb 12, 2013 7:53 am
Hello all, fyi, I have updated the following internet draft: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-kelly-json-hal-04.txt All thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Feb 12, 2013 9:52 pm
Here's a slightly more useful link than the previous one! http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-05 ... -- Mike http://twitter.com/mikekelly85 ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Feb 13, 2013 2:49 pm
Catching up on http-wg, I came across this Roy quote: "Regarding proactive negotiation in HTTP/2, I'll note that Waka strips all negotiation fields. I find...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Feb 13, 2013 4:04 pm
... Would be nice to have some links, such discussions have eluded me. My apologies for overreacting, I took Roy's meaning as an argument against the late...
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Craig McClanahan
craig_mcclan...
Feb 13, 2013 5:35 pm
I've written several APIs lately that contain a similar concept to the "links" abstraction with a useful extension -- we also include an "allowed" field that...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Feb 13, 2013 5:59 pm
Hi Craig, Thanks for your response. The problem with that approach is you have to force your access model around the HTTP verbs. So if you have different...
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Craig McClanahan
craig_mcclan...
Feb 13, 2013 9:42 pm
... Well, my task was to define public HTTP APIs for our resources, so binding to HTTP semantics didn't really bother me :-). ... I think there are (at least)...
