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Well, the RESTful Web Services book says: use query variables to imply inputs into an algorithm, for example: /search?q=jellyfish&start=20. I don’t think the retrieval of a FAQ is an algorithm.
“Roughly, GET means “get” and DELETE means “delete”. The meaning of PUT and POST, and the differences between them, isn’t quite so clear cut unfortunately, so a couple of standalone attempts have been made to explain it.”
Isn’t the difference between PUT and POST as clear as the difference between C and U in CRUD?
No. Both PUT and POST can be used to create new Resources. POST as a sub-resource of another, when the server picks the target location; PUT when the target location is known.
Well, you could consider the retrieval of the FAQ an algorithm too. Everytime the FAQ is retrieved, the algorithm should determine the most frequently asked questions. This URL apparently determines all the FAQs to form the RestFaq
Okay, it’s Saturday morning 6am, I can’t sleep… Maybe I should stop making silly remarks as these
March 18th, 2008 at 1:54
[...] Aaron Forgue wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptApparently, the REST FAQ is hosted at:. http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RestFaq. Quite a RESTful URI! [...]
March 18th, 2008 at 7:20
Huh? How would a URI be RESTful or not RESTful? If the FAQ were hosted at http://example.com/lksjdlaksjdlkasjdlkajskldjaslkdjalksjd — would that be more RESTful?
March 18th, 2008 at 11:24
Well, the RESTful Web Services book says: use query variables to imply inputs into an algorithm, for example: /search?q=jellyfish&start=20. I don’t think the retrieval of a FAQ is an algorithm.
March 21st, 2008 at 0:08
“Roughly, GET means “get” and DELETE means “delete”. The meaning of PUT and POST, and the differences between them, isn’t quite so clear cut unfortunately, so a couple of standalone attempts have been made to explain it.”
Isn’t the difference between PUT and POST as clear as the difference between C and U in CRUD?
March 21st, 2008 at 12:06
No. Both PUT and POST can be used to create new Resources. POST as a sub-resource of another, when the server picks the target location; PUT when the target location is known.
March 22nd, 2008 at 14:22
Well, then again the Spring forums are not running on Spring
March 29th, 2008 at 6:11
Well, you could consider the retrieval of the FAQ an algorithm too. Everytime the FAQ is retrieved, the algorithm should determine the most frequently asked questions. This URL apparently determines all the FAQs to form the RestFaq
Okay, it’s Saturday morning 6am, I can’t sleep… Maybe I should stop making silly remarks as these