A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...
POST requests make sense for packing tracking, you know, because of definition of postal. Okay bad joke but it is true, Google's package tracking API is now only accepting POST requests. Google ...
I'm not asking how to detect duplicate POST requests. I'm asking if we are supposed to. According to RFC 2616 (section 9.5), POST is used to submit some sort of record/resource/data to the server ...
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 ...
Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...
Take advantage of a custom message handler to log request and response metadata in Web API for debugging, tracing, and inspection of the incoming and outgoing calls Like authentication, caching, and ...