On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:49:27PM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: > I think it takes a more advanced developer to code against > headers-based APIs, partly just because they aren't exposed in the > browser. Query strings are in the url, so they can even be copied and > pasted around. The same holds for Accept headers vs .html or .json > file extensions in the URL.
Exactly. >From a pragmatic view point, custom headers will exclude certain clients. >From a purist view point, custom headers are the wrong place for this. Is there any benefit to using custom headers at all? -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
