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Re:So you want to offer a public API … by mikegirouard on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @08:20AM (#4290514)
Excellent point. I can't agree more. In the long run, this makes things far more flexible.

Also, I might be nitpicking here, but I think the difference between a URL and a URI is that the URL explicitly defines the media type.

If that's the case, then the advice would be to use URIs pointing to resources in combination with `Accept` headers.

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Re:So you want to offer a public API … by icebraining on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @08:38AM (#4290583)
Also, I might be nitpicking here, but I think the difference between a URL and a URI is that the URL explicitly defines the media type.

No, no. An URL is an URI. And the URL doesn't define any media-type, those are hacks created frameworks; there's no such thing in the spec.

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