>>> Norman Gray <[email protected]> schrieb am 19.09.2022 um 20:44 in Nachricht <[email protected]>:
> Greetings. > > On 19 Sep 2022, at 17:54, Howard Chu wrote: > >> Then, I would like to propose a full Open Source first realease of a CRUD > REST Web Service to manipulate OpenLDAP's Directory Objects. > > This is a nice idea! > > However, as something of a terminology quibble, I'd say this was a 'web > service', rather than a 'REST web service'. > > As I understand the term, I take 'REST' to refer to a web service which, at > a minimum, > > * describes a URL‑based scheme for _naming_ the things being manipulated, > and > * retrieves and manipulates those things via the HTTP verbs, GET, POST, > PUT, DELETE, etc. > > Thus the 'JSON query string' sent to the server via HTTP POST wouldn't > qualify as 'REST'. OTOH it will help to keep URIs short and allow easy encoding of structured data. ... Regards, Ulrich
