{"id":301,"date":"2006-08-03T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/restful-url-design-and-stuff\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:04:00","slug":"restful-url-design-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/restful-url-design-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"RESTful URL design… and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a question about REST<\/a>ful URLs which is going to sound pretty trivial and boring unless you’re a RESTafarian… apparently they exist.<\/p>\n

Say I have a resource with the URL http:\/\/widgets.com\/widget\/1<\/a> to which I can GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. If I want the user to have an overview of widget 1 they can GET this URL, similarly for DELETE. But if I want to point them to a form where they can edit the widget (which I don’t necessarily want to display by default), what would a RESTful URL be?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/widget.com\/widget\/1\/edit ?
http:\/\/widget.com\/widget\/1?action=edit ?
http:\/\/widget.com\/widget\/edit\/1 ?<\/p>\n

What if I have a page which lists all my widgets, should that be
http:\/\/widget.com\/widgets
or
http:\/\/widget.com\/widget ?<\/p>\n

There’s an article on URI design<\/a> by Timbl<\/a> which contains lots of “don’t”s but not many “do”s.<\/p>\n

In other news…<\/h3>\n

I am furious with PlusNet for losing<\/a> two years worth of emails I had stored on their IMAP server (along with everyone else’s). I had “backup email” on my to do list for about a year, shame I relied on an ISP to back up my data. There were a lot of important emails in that inbox. I’m going to start looking into running my own mail server so at least if I lose data I know it’s only my own fault. I’ve been meaning to play with Hula<\/a> for ages but I’ve been waiting for their first stable release for over a year! They gave a talk at LugRadio Live and it sounds like the stable release is coming, but it’s still going to be a while (I can’t help but feel they’ve missed the boat<\/a> a bit). I also have a book on Postfix which I might dig out.<\/p>\n

Continuing in the theme of storing my own data, I’ve started on a new Drupal version of my now 5 year old homepage, which I plan to migrate my LiveJournal blog to if and when I figure out how to do it.<\/p>\n

I found out that I didn’t win the IET Write Around the World Competition again this year, no suprises there really. The judges’ feedback boiled down to: well written, technically sound but boring as hell! I admit they have a point, I didn’t like it myself once it was finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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