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Proper URL structure in REST API to change status of one particular record
What's the proper URL structure in REST API for changing state of one particular record (e.g. change from "new" to "processed").
Now I work with this URL without request body:
PATCH /employees/123/...
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Is a URC (Uniform Resource Citation) synonymous with a Query String or Url Parameters?
Reading this:
https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/development/web/URI-URL-URN-IRI-URC
URCs provide a set of attribute/value pairs that describe properties of URIs like authorship, publisher, copyright ...
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How can I translate an ip address to a url in a Java Webserver?
I host my own webserver through Java. The problem is I can only access it through a web browser by using an ip address. Can I spoof a url? For example, I type in 192.168.2.111 into the address bar,...
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ID's in resource URLs: database id or per-user id?
For REST interfaces or webapps with nice-looking URLs, I constantly ask myself on what numbers to use if we want to refer to specific resources/pages.
A typical approach seems to be to use the unique ...
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Should I specify the userId in the REST URL structure?
Basically, one feature of my app is to retrieve the logged user's friends.
Actually, I hesitate between both kind of endpoints:
GET /api/users/friends
GET /api/users/:userId/friends
Using 1, userId ...
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Levels of user permissions in a RESTful API
Let's say I have a company that ranks the cutest cats on the internet.
I offer a resource at /cats/ which provides users with the latest, cutest adorable cats.
Users can either get just the top 3 cats ...
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When did the first "REST"-model and friendly URL web technology come to be?
Everyone knows that the "current" way to do things is to have user-readable URLs. Like:
http://example.com/blog/edit/1234
Rather than:
http://example.com/blog.php?action=edit&id=1234
When ...
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Is path in Set-Cookie URL encoded?
I'm writing some code that sets cookies and I'm wondering about the exact semantics of the Set-Cookie header. Imagine the following HTTP header line:
Set-Cookie: name=value; Path=/%20
For with path ...
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Should I implement slugs with my already fairly long URLs? [closed]
I'm considering implementing slugs in my blog. My blog uses MongoDB. One of the side-effects of using MongoDB is that it uses relatively long hex string IDs.
Example
before: http://lastyearswishes....
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