I have a REST Java server implemented with Jersey running on Jetty. It seems that certain browsers (IE7) internally caches all requests made to the server. What I would like to do is to send a certain HTTP header in the response from the REST server indicating the browser that it shouldn't cache that response, and so will query the ser...
I am using Flex to connect to a Rest service. To access order #32, for instance, I can call the URL http://[service]/orders/32. The URL must be configured as a destination - since the client will connect to different instances of the service. All of this is using the Blaze Proxy, since it involves GET, PUT, DELETE and POST calls. The pro...
We will need to call out to a 3rd party to retrieve a value using REST, however if we do not receive a response within 10ms, I want to use a default value and continue processing. I'm leaning towards using an asynchronous WebRequest do to this, but I was wondering if there was a trick to doing it using a synchronous request. Any advice...
I'm just meddling in the ways of the RESTful web service in C# using ASP.Net 2.0 and have managed (via a class library, a reference to dll produced by the former and some adjustment of my web.config) to coax out a URI format like so: http: //localhost/DevelopmentProject/testhandler/?input=thisismyinput Which unremarkably just returns ...
We're currently trying to plan a new developer API for our application and debating the various data formats we should use for interchange. We're also going to be using this API for our official desktop application so we're going to have a working implementation before it goes public. There's a fairly intense discussion going on about ...
What is the bare minimum I need to put in web.config to get WCF working with REST? I have annotated my methods with [WebGet], but they are not getting the message. ...
If something goes wrong in a WCF REST call, such as the requested resource is not found, how can I play with the HTTP response code (setting it to something like HTTP 404, for example) in my OperationContract method? ...
I am trying to write a web service to spec and it requires a different response body depending on whether the method completes successfully or not. I have tried creating two different DataContract classes, but how can I return them and have them serialized correctly? ...
I'm looking to write a config file that allows for RESTful services in WCF, but I still want the ability to 'tap into' the membership provider for username/password authentication. The below is part of my current config using basicHttp binding or wsHttp w/out WS Security, how will this change w/ REST based services? <bindings> <wsHt...
What are the best practices for this? Rails comes with RESTful resources out of the box, but do you use those for your actual public API? If so, how would you accomplish versioning of your API (i.e. example.com/api/v2/foo/bar, etc)? ...
I'm using the current version of restful_authentication that is found on github and I'm having a bunch of strange session issues. The server seems to be somehow assigning sessions to users it shouldn't be. This only happens when crossing the logged out/logged in barrier. Here's an example. With no sessions active on the server, I log in...
All, As part of an application I'm writing I need to have a HTTP PUT webservice which accepts incoming imagedata, which will by analyzed, validated, and added to a local file store. My issue arises after the size validation as the $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] has a > 0 value, and this value is identical to the test file size, so I...
What is the benefit of referencing resources using globally-unique URIs (as REST does) versus using a proprietary id format? For example: http://host.com/student/5 http://host.com/student?id=5 In the first approach the entire URL is the ID. In the second approach only the 5 is the ID. What is the practical benefit of the first appro...
What is the practical benefit of using HTTP GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, HEAD? Why not focus on their behavioral benefits (safety and idempotency), forgetting their names, and use GET, PUT or POST depending on which behavior we want? Why shouldn't we only use GET, PUT and POST (and drop HEAD, DELETE)? ...
I'm wondering how you'd implement the following use-case in REST. Is it even possible to do without compromising the conceptual model? Read or update multiple resources within the scope of a single transaction. For example, transfer $100 from Bob's bank account into John's account. As far as I can tell, the only way to implement this i...
I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a url, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the url as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object. I'd like to learn how to do this without a library so I can get to know Django better....
What type of authentication would you suggest for the service that is: implemented as WCF and exposed via varios enpoints (including XML-RPC) has to be consumed easily by various cross-platform clients Why? Options that I'm aware of are: Forms-based authentication for IIS-hosted WCF (easy to implement, but has horrible cross-platf...
When you think about it, doesn't the REST paradigm of being resource-oriented boil down to being object-oriented (with constrained functionality, leveraging HTTP as much as possible)? I'm not necessarily saying it's a bad thing, but rather that if they are essentially the same very similar then it becomes much easier to understand REST ...
From the documentation that I have read so far, ADO.Net data services is positioned as way of exposing a CRUD like interface to tables in a database in a RESTful way. This is great for applications that only do those four operations, but what about applications that do more? What about verbs like Print, Approve, Submit, Copy, Transfer,...
I'm starting a project using a Restful architecture implemented in Java (using the new JAX-RS standard) We are planning to develop the GUI with a Flex application. I have already found some problems with this implementation using the HTTPService component (the response error codes, headers access...). Any of you guys have some experien...