DHH (main creator of Ruby on Rails) is taking Rails in a RESTful direction. Here is his blog <http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html> , here is a (long) ...
... I wish the reference to REST was a bit more direct and clear. The term CRUD may be useful to help communicate the GET/POST/PUT/DELETE meaning, but the...
... So, this is good news. Rails is currently busted from a REST viewpoint - it's conventions are at odds with sound web design, and it's about time, frankly....
... Ditto. Good to see. I'm also mildy concerned about the use of "CRUD", because as Jerome says, the mapping to uniform operations isn't one-to-one. Labels...
Hi all, I'm just getting into this REST thing so please have some patience with my newbie level questions :-) Say that I want to get a set of cars. It seems...
Hi Jonas, ... Thez are all welcome, that is one of the purposes of this list! ... Both approaches are fine from a REST POV. The latter is IMO more human...
Signal vs. Noise has a post today about endless scrolling: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/no_more_more_pages.php It's a whiz-bang sort of effect, where...
I don't think paging breaks REST - rather, I think that it's just a default value of part of the query string. One system I helped architect made sure all...
Hi Michal, I don't agree, as new items are added, the meaning of the resource doesn't change, "http://example.org/list?page=2" is always the second page of the...
... My own preference would be to use /cars/ for the collection and /cars/123 for a particular car, enjoying the conceptual hierarchy. But it's totally a...
... Yeah. The Rico library[1] has an Ajax widget for scrolling like this, which puts a scrollbar on an HTML table. When the user first loads the page, they get...
Hello I'm very pleased to announce the translation of the "chapter 5 : Representational State Transfer (REST)" from the Roy Thomas Fielding dissertation into...
I'm considering making different URL's for retrieval of a list of sites vs. one site (sites are actual locations on the ground in my scenario): List of sites:...
Hi Scott, The same question came up a couple weeks ago -- you'll find several different opinions. But all were agreed that REST itself doesn't suggest one or...
I think he was asking not only for a resource that is a collection, but also the client providing an explicit list of data elements to return. Although I...
Hi, I know it is a repeating topic how to correctly authenticate a client to a REST interface. Please first note, if I talk about client I do not mean browser,...
Hi Sebastian, We have a (very) little experience in providing web services as a finantial institution. We provide services to other financial institutions. We...
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... I think it is not the problem to generate HTTP auth, but to handle it. But I might be wrong. On the server side I have a Tomcat handling the requests in a...
... Thanks for this lengthy description of your experience. I think it is the way I intended to go. I will first again check if HTTP auth might work, but if it...
Tomcat gives several options for implementing and patching in your own notion of "realm". Check the tomcat docs. Should be no problem. ... I ... in ... ...
... Perhaps the discussion is going off topic, but anyway, as far as I know you can always retrieve the user / password even the Tomcat is handling the...
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... I believe it can be configured either way, and potentially differently depending on the URL path. Our application handles all authentication inside Tomcat...
... HTTP Basic auth is definitely the way to go. If your framework doesn't help you, in the worst case you can just read and parse the Authorization header...
... Any reason why not PUT? ... We've implemented just that using C# and Java restlets. Gives normal client login. ... We've done it as part of the application...
... HTTP Basic offers zero security unless encryption is coming from somewhere else (SSL). HTTP Digest is the way to go if you aren't going over a secure...
I am conducting research into the practices of enterprise architecture and software development and would love your participation. The URL to the survey is:...
If hitting a URL with GET is supposed to give you a view of the resource and it's not a form by default, then how to do you get a <form...> view of it for ...
Scott, IMO forms should either be discovered while the client proceeds through the application's state machine or the MIME type that supports the desired...
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