Couldn't this mess up caching? Jim
PS - Query params should be considered part of a URI, I dislike that RFC2616 says dumb things about them. On 21 Apr 2010, at 13:18, [email protected] wrote: > The better approach is to use an optional request parameter (which > is unlikely to conflict with "real" request parameters) that provides > the necessary value(s) that the headers provide, which is analogous to > the mechanism used by most REST APIs to allow browsers to do PUT, > DELETE, etc... > > > > e.g. > > > > someURL?_acceptHeaders=text/xml;application/thingworx;bloodtype/apos > > > > > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Neo] Conneg in REST API > From: Jim Webber <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, April 21, 2010 7:00 am > To: Neo user discussions <[email protected]> > Hey Peter, > If we really want to cater for non-compliant browsers, then we can > dispatch on user-agent, using the same XHTML code that exists today. > Jim > On 21 Apr 2010, at 11:18, Peter Neubauer wrote: >> Yeah, >> this is good, except that some browsers, e.g. IE, don't provide these >> headers and thus f... up all that nice thinking. Any idea how to cope >> with that? >> >> > [1]http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/browser-rest-http-accept-heade > rs >> >> Cheers, >> >> /peter neubauer >> >> COO and Sales, Neo Technology >> >> GTalk: neubauer.peter >> Skype peter.neubauer >> Phone +46 704 106975 >> LinkedIn [2]http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer >> Twitter [3]http://twitter.com/peterneubauer >> >> [4]http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. >> [5]http://nosqleu.com - The biggest NOSQL event. Ever. >> [6]http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavias coolest Bring-a-Thing > party. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mattias Persson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You mean using the Content-Type/Accept headers? That's at least how > it's >>> solved now with text/html and application/json living side to side > in the >>> REST API today. >>> >>> 2010/3/23 Jim Webber <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Just another thought: if we're going to use multiple representation >>>> formats, then we should use content negotiation. >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Neo mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> [7]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mattias Persson, [[email protected]] >>> Hacker, Neo Technology >>> [8]www.neotechnology.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Neo mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> [9]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo mailing list >> [email protected] >> [10]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > [11]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > References > > 1. http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/browser-rest-http-accept-headers > 2. http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer > 3. http://twitter.com/peterneubauer > 4. http://www.neo4j.org/ > 5. http://nosqleu.com/ > 6. http://www.thoughtmade.com/ > 7. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > 8. http://www.neotechnology.com/ > 9. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > 10. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > 11. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
