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• 30 Aug 08
  

  Alex Popescu

  REST

  • Red Herring: The Evils of POST 
    If you dip into REST discussions a bit, you may leave with the impression that POST is the anti-REST, and it should be avoided at all costs. However, if that’s true, why did the Great Roy allow POST to be foisted upon HTTP? Perhaps it has a place in RESTful applications after all — as long as it’s used intelligently. 

     This usually becomes obvious when you’re deep in the bowels of resource-modelling an application, trying to figure out how to represent a complex operation as state — only to realise that there’s no need to expose all of the details, if there were just some way to say “hey, submit this for processing!” POST is the correct answer.
  • formats are hard
  • Finally, one of the deeper REST constraints is using hypertext as the engine of application state.

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• 07 May 08
  

  Scott Colestock
  • This usually becomes obvious when you’re deep in the bowels of resource-modelling an application, trying to figure out how to represent a complex operation as state — only to realise that there’s no need to expose all of the details, if there were just some way to say “hey, submit this for processing!” POST is the correct answer.
  • Red Herring: URI Design
  • I’d worry a lot more about cacheability, extensibility and well-defined formats before blowing out my schedule on well-designed URIs.
  • n almost all cases, there are a multitude of good RESTful URIs for a concept, not just one. Many of the considerations are practical (e.g., will it work with relative URIs? Will it be cacheable? Is it extensible?), not theoretical, but people seem very inclined to focus on the theory, IME.

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• 10 Mar 08
  

  matthieu bozec

  rest

• 22 Mar 07
  

  rest webservices caching design api

• 07 Mar 07
  

  mikeyp

  sparql is an HTTP Sparql client written in Python. It performs SELECT and ASK queries on an endpoint which implements the HTTP (GET or POST) bindings of the SPARQL Protocol.

  REST http architecture

• 06 Mar 07
  

  Don Young

  REST HTTP architecture web Design authentication issues webdev

• 02 Mar 07
  

  Alan Dean

  I think that most of the debate about REST focuses on the wrong things, leading developers down the garden path at the expense of their productivity and the success of their projects. Time and time again, I’ve seen folks who are new to REST get caught u

  REST Design Mark.Nottingham

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  Dietmar Temps

  How About Some Real Issues with REST ...

  rest http architecture web design authentication issues

• 28 Feb 07
  

  Kenneth Priisholm

  I think that most of the debate about REST focuses on the wrong things, leading developers down the garden path at the expense of their productivity and the success of their projects.

  rest http

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  Bruce Healy

  rest restful web architecture design issues http authentication

• 27 Feb 07
  

  znarfor

  imported rest

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