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This excerpt from REST in Practice covers HTTP security. A coffee shop called Restbucks is used for the examples.HTTP Authentication and Authorization
As we’ve often seen on the World Wide Web, HTT...
This excerpt from REST in Practice walks you through the fulfillment service of a coffee shop called Restbucks to show how AtomPub can be implemented in .NET. In this section, we show how Restbucks ...
Atom is an XML-based hypermedia format for representing timestamped lists of web content and metadata such as blog postings and news articles. The following excerpt from REST in Practice shows you how...
The following excerpt from REST in Practice describes how to build a RESTful service that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols. This particular example models the...
Answered by dampier : Dec 10 2010 09:41 PM
MongoLab is doing an elegant job of putting a RESTful facade on top of MongoDB.
The API is clean and lightweight, and of course with MongoDB interactive / ad-hoc queries are not a problem.
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If you're building a web service and would like to use links to control application flow on the server, but don't know where to start, try this recipe from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Co...
Have you just created the ultimate RESTful interface for a revolutionary new web service and now want to document it? Good thing there's this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Coo...
Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...
You think you're going to keep the same interface forever, but the truth is you can't anticipate every use case. You'll eventually want to introduce a new version. That's where this excerpt from Sub...
Users can get frustrated and services break when links fall dead. Since URIs are a key part of the interface between clients and servers, it is important to keep them “cool,” i.e., stable and pe...