jon_moore

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   by jon_moore 13y ago

   N.B. Pipelining can be used for any idempotent request (so PUTs and DELETEs work too). That said, lack of broad implementation support for pipelining is still an issue. Since HTTP/2.0 is being based on SPDY, hopefully we'll see a day where
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   by jon_moore 14y ago

   I'm pretty sure Google's home page doesn't include every possible search term for you to select from, and that's a perfectly RESTful example of an exposed function (search). Forms are a very powerful hypermedia construct.
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   by jon_moore 14y ago

   GET /cityDistance?city1=Chicago&city2=Austin Also, while POST can mean "create", it can also mean "append" or "process some arbitrary request."
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   by jon_moore 14y ago

   I think it's somewhat of a benefit to make the clients expect to do a little searching to find the data/links/forms they want to use--it makes them a little more robust and adaptable (I guess because they have lowered expectations!). Contra
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   by jon_moore 14y ago

   A lot of Mike Amundsen's work you've listed here is a direct inspiration for this article. Thanks, MCA!
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   by jon_moore 14y ago

   Yep, this is really the point. If we think hypermedia APIs give you evolvability, then we've got to figure out how to do it; we don't have libraries for that sitting around, so someone has to do some work somewhere. HAL is going for "start