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Re:Dudes, this is so not REST by Darrel on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @07:59PM (#2330050)
Not sure how all REST folk feel, but Roy doesn't have any problem with using the convention of file extensions to indicate resources with different formats. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/1396...
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Re:Dudes, this is so not REST by stanleydrew on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:44AM (#2330851)
Well, to be clear, he says you should certainly use the Accept header, and if you want to be nice you should provide the formatted URLs as well.
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Re:Dudes, this is so not REST by regularfry on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:56AM (#2331125)
Yeah, but he's explicitly saying that they are different resources with differing types, not the same one with differing types.
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