Restful design

[mazdotnet]

Hi guys,

I need some architecture design verification. We have a site on shared
hosting so I can not use ISAPI filters to do any URL redirecting..etc.
We need to allow our end users to access some data so they can display
it on their site. I've been reading a lot of REST which is really easy
to use. However, I have some questions,
1. All the example have a the URL as http://www.mysite.com/rest/people
to return a list of people. Can I have it as http://www.mysite.com/rest/people.aspx?
I can easy create folder 'people' and have the code in default.aspx
then they can access it by http://www.mysite.com/rest/people
2. Is it ok to make it so that our end users do a POST to that URL and
then return back XML
3. Do I still have to pass the USERNAME/PASSWORD in every call?

Am I on the right track here? Is this still considered a REST
Service?

Thank you and I really appreciate your feedback
Maz.

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

You can have the url anyway you see fit. Also, you do not need ISAPI filters
to do urlrewriting for ASP.NET - take a look at some of the open-source
urlrewriting projects such as Urlrewriting.Net.
Your end users can do a POST verb and you return xml. As long as you spell
out to users how your API works, there is no absolute "rule" that you must
only do it a certain way.
You can handle authentication any way you want - either with cookies, or
require to pass username / password on the RESTful querystring, or a user
token, whatever.
--Peter

 

[mazdotnet]

You can have the url anyway you see fit. Also, you do not need ISAPI filters
to do urlrewriting for ASP.NET - take a look at some of the open-source
urlrewriting projects such as Urlrewriting.Net.
Your end users can do a POST verb and you return xml. As long as you spell
out to users how your API works, there is no absolute "rule" that you must
only do it a certain way.
You can handle authentication any way you want - either with cookies, or
require to pass username / password on the RESTful querystring, or a user
token, whatever.
--Peter









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Thank you so much for clarifying this up for me
Maz