Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP

Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP by Morst on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:07PM (#10426388)

We should not use HTTP for such things. It is against HTTPs intentions. Just use any other protocol.

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Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP by gk_brown on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:20PM (#10426488)

If you are implementing a REST service, then I agree with you 100%. WebRPC is simply a different interpretation. In WebRPC, GET means "get the result of executing this method". POST basically means the same thing, but the arguments are passed in the message body (just like an HTML form).

The client libraries all use POST internally - GET is primarily useful for testing and debugging (so you can easily execute a method in the browser).

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Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP by pixie_ on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:02PM (#10444672)

If you're transferring anything other than hypertext over http then you're a hypocrite.

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