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This is interesting. I like REST for its URL resource name-space idea, but less so for its lack of specificity/standards for choosing media types and doing sec
by Shaping 16y ago
This is interesting. I like REST for its URL resource name-space idea, but less so for its lack of specificity/standards for choosing media types and doing security. Concerning the GET limitations specifically, what problems were you having with size and character encodings? This makes me think that the REST verb-structure-as-hyper-media-CRUD model is broken from the start, in terms of scalability.
- vsync 16y agoI believe URLs are limited to 1000 or 1024 bytes, or are in practice on some browsers (probably IE of course), and are either limited to 7-bit ASCII for strict compliance or the character encoding is just undefined. It's been a while since I looked at the RFCs in detail on this and I'm sick right now so I apologize for the lack of detail.