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Technically, having a bunch of HTTP resources that return data of type text/csv in response to GET requests is a perfectly valid API. It's also easy to build: j
by pjscott 14y ago
Technically, having a bunch of HTTP resources that return data of type text/csv in response to GET requests is a perfectly valid API. It's also easy to build: just put those CSV files in a directory and have Apache serve it up.
How useful this is depends on how clear the data is, how well they document things, how sane their document formats are -- in other words, it depends on things that are much harder to mandate than just "have an API". I'll predict in advance that most of the APIs here will be pretty half-assed.
- einhverfr 14y agoTechnically having a bunch of HTTP resources that return data of type text/html in response to GET requests is a perfectly valid API. Indeed, it's one your web browser uses all the time. There are also plenty of products that let you set up such a system quickly..... So I guess I agree with you but would even take it further. Of course, if that API is Stuxnet or Flame-based....