Re: UWS as a REST protocol

From: Doug Tody <dtody-at-nrao.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:17:45 -0600 (MDT)


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Reworking Roy's example:
> http://blabla.edu?service=cutout&POS=301,22&recipe=bombayduck

> The REST alternative is to send an HTTP GET request to the service endpoint
> of http://blabla.edu/cutout/301/22/bombayduck.

One encounters this sort of example in theoretical discussions of REST, but in the real world of the Web, a GET has request parameters 99.99% of the time. So long as the GET does not have side effects it probably qualifies as RESTful in the real world.

Received on 2007-03-12Z23:18:23