Re: REST

* @ 18/07/05 05:34:15 PM Nick.Whitelegg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Am I right in undestanding that this differs from XML-RPC in that you send
> HTTP requests as URLs, rather than wrapping them up in method calls, and in
> that way it's "lower-level" but perhaps more efficient than XML-RPC?

yup

> e.g. you could use something like cURL, or JavaScript XMLHttpRequest
> (AJAX), to construct an HTTP request, get some XML (or whatever) back and
> then have your application process your XML?

yup, or whatever http library your $LANGUAGE has

> And that rather than x method calls you have x URLs which take different
> query-string (HTTP GET) parameters?

yes, put you can POST xml to it too.

have fun,

SteveC steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.fractalus.com/steve/