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What’s playing at some of the 100,000 new sites launched by Marchex? Probably a lot more than you think and likely right next door. If you live in Los Angeles, one way to find out is to google “Your unique local guide to” “los angeles”, and examine the results. You’ll see a lot of websites […]
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Don’t get me wrong. Exposing an HTTP GET interface and supporting query string parameters is a wonderful thing for building mash-ups and bookmarking, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg to being truly RESTful.
FeatureSever is software that allows users to obtain information about geographic features using a RESTful API. Here’s a few examples of […]
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Many RESTful applications expose APIs that require the use of components of the URL to specify the output format or the expected mime content-type of the response. This does, however, violate a key REST good practice: the one on URI opacity. There is already an HTTP request header that’s intended for this purpose and it […]
