[Catalyst] Re: General API question: REST + SOAP

[Dave Rolsky]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

> This is a very bad idea. No matter what problem you have,
> a custom HTTP header is very nearly certainly the wrong solution.
> For API versioning it definitely is.

My understanding of REST, at least, is that versioning should be done by 
specifying different Accept and Content-Type headers, like 
x-application/x-myapp-auction-item-v1.

This makes sense with REST, since the URI for a thing should always stay 
the same, but it's representation can vary. The API version is part of 
that representation.


-dave

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