I'm writing an AJAX app, but as the user moves through the app, I'd like the URL in the address bar to update despite the lack of page reloads. Basically, I'd like for them to be able to bookmark at any point and thereby return to the current state. How are people handling maintaining RESTfulness in AJAX apps? Thanks in advance....
My gut feel is that document based web services are preferred in practice - is this other peoples experience? are they easier to support? (I noted that Sharepoint uses Any for the "document type" in its WSDL interface, I guess that makes it Document based). Also - are people offering both WSDL and Rest type services now for the same fu...
When designing a REST API or service are there any established best practices for dealing with security (Authentication, Authorization, Identity Management) ? When building a SOAP API you have WS-Security as a guide and much literature exists on the topic. I have found less information about securing REST endpoints. While I understand ...
What techniques do people use to "consume" services in the REST stile on .Net ? Plain http client? Related to this: many rest services are now using JSON (its tighter and faster) - so what JSON lib is used? ...
I'd like to start moving our application business layers into a collection of REST web services. However, most of our Intranet has been built using Classic ASP and most of the developers where I work keep programming in Classic ASP. Ideally, then, for them to benefit from the advantages of a unique set of web APIs, it would have to be ca...
What is the minimum set of HTTP verbs that a server should allow for a web service to be classed as RESTful? What if my hoster doesn't permit PUT and DELETE? Is this actually important, can I live happily ever after with just GET and POST ? Update: Thanks for the answers folks, Roger's answer was probably best because of the link t...
Trying to use a guid as a resource id in a rest url but cant find any resource on how to. My best right now (not working though) is: http://localhost:49157/PhotogalleryDS.svc/gallery('1d03beb3-6d63-498b-aad7-fab0b1480996') (I've tried duouble/single quotes. And also {guid....} with braces. Still no luck. i only get: Syntax error '"' a...
Does anyone have links to documentation or guides on making the decision between REST vs. SOAP? I understand both of these but am looking for some references on the key decision points, eg, security, which may make you lean towards one or the other. ...
I'm building a RESTful web service which has multiple URIs for one of its resources, because there is more than one unique identifier. Should the server respond to a GET request for an alternate URI by returning the resource, or should I send an HTTP 3xx redirect to the canonical URI? Is HTTP 303 (see also) the most appropriate redirect?...
I'm using the RESTful authentication Rails plugin for an app I'm developing. I'm having a strange issue I can't get to the bottom of. Essentially, the first time I log into the app after a period of inactivity (the app is deployed in production, but only being used by me), I will be brought to a 404 page, but if I go back to the home pag...
Is it possible to create a REST web service using ASP.NET 2.0? The articles and blog entries I am finding all seem to indicate that ASP.NET 3.5 with WCF is required to create REST web services with ASP.NET. If it is possible to create REST web services in ASP.NET 2.0 can you provide an example. Thanks! ...
Python frameworks always provide ways to handle urls that convey the data of the request in an elegant way: think http://somewhere.overtherainbow.com/userid/123424/ I want your to notice the ending path /userid/123424/ How do you do this in ASP.NET? ...
We are trying to implement a REST API for an application we have now. We want to expose read/write capabilities for various resources using the REST API. How do we implement the "form" part of this? I get how to expose "read" of our data by creating RESTful URLs that essentially function as method calls and return the data: GET /restapi...
just wondering if anyone knows of a truly restful Put/delete implementation asp.net mvc preview 5 preferably. ...
I have a REST data service where I want to allow the users to create new items with HTTP PUT using different formats like json,xml,csv. Now I'm a little unsure how to best handle the format specification in the url: PUT -> /ressource/ID/json PUT -> /ressource/ID/xml or PUT -> /ressource/ID?format=json So what is the best way ...
I am bit confused about ADO.Net Data Services. Is it just meant for creating RESTful web services? I know WCF started in the SOAP world but now I hear it has good support for REST. Same goes for ADO.Net data services where you can make it work in an RPC model if you cannot look at everything from a resource oriented view. At least from...
If i use restful_authentication in my ruby on rails app are passwords transfered between the broswer and the server in paintext? And if so how worried should I be about it? ...
I am looking for some good links with best practices and sample code on creating RESTful web services using .NET. Also, any other input you might have regarding REST would be greatly appreciated. ...
We are developing a middleware SDK, both in C++ and Java to be used as a library/DLL by, for example, game developers, animation software developers, Avatar developers to enhance their products. Having created a typical API using specific calls for specific functions I am considering simplifying the API by using a REST type API (GET, PU...
I'm looking for a light version of REST for a Java web application I'm developing. I've looked at RESTlet (www.restlet.org) and the REST plugin for Struts 2, but I haven't made up my mind. I'm leaning towards RESTlet, as it seems to be lighter. Has anyone implemented a RESTful layer without any of the the frameworks or with the framew...