nice new hackage urls

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 22:52 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
> > To be RESTfull this should just be $URL to avoid forcing servers to
> > have a resource called jumptable.
>
> What do real REST designs really do in this kind of situation? For the
> parts of sites intended to be consumed by humans that's easy, you use
> index.html and that provides links humans can choose to follow.
>
> For sites where automated and somewhat-coupled clients (ie not totally
> generic clients like caches, web spiders etc) are expecting certain
> services (it is that expectation that is the coupling), how do they
> discover the urls for the services they are (or might be) expecting?
>
> Do people really concoct little text or xml files giving name -> url
> mappings? Is there some common standard format for doing that?
>

I don't know of a standard format. You could indeed use XML (or perhaps
JSON). By letting the server specify its URL scheme (instead of relying on
out-of-band knowledge about resource locations) it can be more flexible.

-- Johan
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