Laughing Meme » rest http://laughingmeme.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WOE “GeoPlanet”: HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable http://laughingmeme.org/2008/11/19/woe-geoplanet-http11-406-not-acceptable/ http://laughingmeme.org/2008/11/19/woe-geoplanet-http11-406-not-acceptable/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:36:25 +0000 Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4087 not simple polygons

Just putting a note here for the next time I’m working with the Yahoo! GeoPlanet APIs.

The conudrum: a HTTP GET on a given resource (http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/23511846?appid=$appid) works in the browser, and works with wget from the command line, but fails from within PHP with a 406 Not Acceptable.

The solution, append format=XML to the resource URL, because the service is blowing out its brains on a missing Accepts header.

And that folks is the magic of REST.

update 2008/12/04: quick scan of my referer logs suggests this is biting folks using lwp-simple and wget particularly hard.

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2008/11/19/woe-geoplanet-http11-406-not-acceptable/feed/ 2 Bill de hÓra: Non-Newtonian readings http://laughingmeme.org/2008/08/08/bill-de-hora-non-newtonian-readings/ http://laughingmeme.org/2008/08/08/bill-de-hora-non-newtonian-readings/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:52 +0000 Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/?p=3951 “If you enjoyed Kellan Elliott-McCrea and Evan Henshaw-Plath’s presentation “Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP”, here’s a dose of links.” Excellent list.

http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/08/08/non-newtonian-reading/

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2008/08/08/bill-de-hora-non-newtonian-readings/feed/ 0 Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP http://laughingmeme.org/2008/07/23/beyond-rest-building-data-services-with-xmpp/ http://laughingmeme.org/2008/07/23/beyond-rest-building-data-services-with-xmpp/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:42:09 +0000 Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/?p=3930 The slides from Rabble and my talk at OSCON 08. This was our XMPP outsiders look at how to hijack XMPP to solve the problems of RSS and polling at “quantum” and “relativistic” scales. (small and rare, or huge fast and raging).

http://www.slideshare.net/kellan/beyond-rest

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http://www.geonames.org/about.html

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http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000072.html

]]> http://laughingmeme.org/2005/11/03/hackdiary-rest-on-rails/feed/ 0 From the front lines of web services. http://laughingmeme.org/2004/11/16/from-the-front-lines-of-web-services/ http://laughingmeme.org/2004/11/16/from-the-front-lines-of-web-services/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:05:15 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=2646 rafe has met the enemy and he is us. (unless we can all find someone else to blame for SOAP)

http://rc3.org/cgi-bin/less.pl?arg=6625

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