On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When is it appropriate to use a query string to pass parameters to a > REST API call? > > For example, why is: > http://blah/user/1234 > better than: > http://blah/user?id=1234 > ?
It depends on what you're doing. One of the biggest reasons to use the "pure" version is that that is fully cachable. I.e., using GET parameters triggers often non-obvious caches and crawlers -- the simplest being that many of them won't cache URLs with parameters. Have fun, John
