Comments on: ALT.NET REST Presentation

By: Ben Dewey – Leveraging .NET for Appealing UIs » Blog Archive » Building RIA Apps with jQuery and WCF

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By: bendewey

bendewey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:39 +0000

Chris, I too have seen many REST interfaces limit themselves to only POST & GET, firewalls are an interesting case. I assumed it was more closely related to the lack of browser support for these methods. If you take a look at the LitWare Training Sample (http://bendewey.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/litware-training/) you'll see that I utilize an REST Starter Kit's Request Interceptor to create a XHttpMethodOverrideInterceptor. This allows you to stay true to the RESTful HTTP methods and provides a work-around for the lack of browser (or firewall) support for the other methods. -Ben Dewey

By: Yonah Wahrhaftig

Yonah Wahrhaftig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:10 +0000

Hey Ben,

Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your presentation.

Well done!

Thanks

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:40:50 +0000

Ben,
Great presentation. You provided valuable info on some of the differences between using MVC and WCF.

One question: I think I’d read that REST APIs often restrict themselves to GET & POST becaause many of the others are routinely blocked by firewalls. Do you know if that is a problem?

— Chris

By: James Swetnam

James Swetnam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:30:42 +0000

Thanks for the great talk, Ben. Unfortunately I had to run out early but enjoyed the hour or so I was able to catch.