Right way for blog URLs

Question

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to do blog application and I want main page to have this URL: http://localhost/blog and posts to have URLs like this: http://localhost/blog/post-slug-name. So now I'm trying to understand how other actions should look like. Should it be something like this?

http://localhost/blog/post-slug-name/edit (GET/POST)
http://localhost/blog/post-slug-name (DELETE)
http://localhost/blog/create_new (GET/POST)

But I don't like to have "special case" create_new (because pattern is the same as for regular post). What is common way to do this?

Answer 1

If you have full control over how your server maps HTTP requests, you could use a POST to http://localhost/blog/post-slug-name/create to create a post using that slug name, returning a 201 Created status on success and a 409 Conflict if the page exists. The advantage of using a single create_new method is that it can handle conflict avoidance transparently and obviously.