Take advantage of a DelegatingHandler and the X-HTTP-Method-Override in Web API to overcome browser and firewall constraints When deploying your REST Web API over a public domain, you will sometimes ...

I previously blogged about using RESTClient with the Sun JVM-provided HTTP Server. As I stated in that blog posting, I intend to use these tools to demonstrate HTTP and REST concepts at Rocky Mountain ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

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Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...