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How to be robust against webservice downtime caused by third parties
I'm using iPage as my cloud based server provider. I haven't had any problems with them yet. They hold the scripts for my RESTful services for the mobile app I'm developing. My problem however is ...
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What is the benefit of hypermedia (HATEOAS)?
I don't understand the benefit to HATEOAS for APIs intended for use by programs (as opposed to humans directly browsing your API). Sure, the customer isn't bound to a URL schema but they are bound to ...
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Integration of routes that are not resources in an MVC REST style application
I would like to keep my application relatively REST-pure for the sake of consistency, but I'm struggling philosophically with the relatively few views (maybe just one) that I'll need to build that ...
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Applying RESTful design to an entire website?
This all may come across very newbish, but I'm trying to wrap my head around designing a website that is thoroughly RESTful. I understand applying RESTful design to things like Users, Photos, Blog ...
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What is the best way to implement different views of one resource in RESTful manner?
Imagine, there is a resource, for example event. User is able to get list of events in HTML format. He should be able to view that list in two ways: as a list and as a calendar. How the API should ...
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Software architecture for authentication/access-control of REST web service
I am setting up a new RESTful web service and I need to provide a role-based access control model. I need to create an architecture that will allow users to provide their username and password to get ...
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What is REST (in simple English)
Lately I have become interested in familiarizing myself with REST. I tried reading wiki entry on REST, but it was of no help. I would really appreciate it if someone can explain in simple English ...
