News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on PUT or POST: The REST of the Story. Parent comment

Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by mikaelgramont on Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:49PM (#3515924)
Agreed. Sessions and the limitations of forms are the biggest obstacles to 100% restful APIs used from web browsers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by NanoWar on Friday January 27, 2012 @04:49AM (#3517737)
You can however use XHR form submission[1] in the background (which is a good practice (better site responsiveness) after all) to use HTTP methods other than GET and POST.

[1] e.g. http://jquery.malsup.com/form/#json

[ Parent | on HN ]