In the Mood for HTTP

In The Mood For HTTP – Open Q&A

As a software developer today it is pretty difficult to avoid working with HTTP in some capacity.  There also seems to be a growing desire among developers to get a deeper understanding of the protocol.  Recently Glenn Block and I decided it might be interesting to do an online Q&A about HTTP and try and answer developer […]

API Producer Auth Token

Where, oh where, does the API key go?

Yesterday on twitter I made a comment criticizing the practice of putting an API key in a query string parameter.  I was surprised by the amount of attention it got and there were a number of responses questioning the significance of my objection.  Rather than try and reply in 140 character chunks, I decided a blog post […]

Query String Squid

Caching resources with query strings

This afternoon Scott Hanselman posted a fairly innocuous question on twitter.  However, the question involved versioning of a RESTful API, which is a subject that is sure to bring out lots of opinions.  This post is less about the versioning question and more about the commonly held belief that caches do things differently with URLs that have […]

Best Before Date

Single purpose media types and caching

My recent post asking people to refrain from creating more generic hypermedia types sparked some good conversation on twitter between @mamund, @cometaj2, @mogsie, @inadarei and others.  Whilst thinking some more on the potential benefits of single purpose media types versus generic hypermedia types, realized there is a correlation between single purpose media types and representation lifetimes.  I thought it might be worth […]

Can a HTTP cache serve a response?

Caching is hard, draw me a picture–Updated

This is my attempt to make the HTTPbis caching rules more accessible and hopefully shine a light on how powerful HTTP caching can be. I’ve been working on a Pluralsight course that talks about how to use the Microsoft HttpClient library.  One of the areas I cover is how to take advantage of HTTP caching.  […]

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