The better approach is to use an optional request parameter (which is unlikely to conflict with "real" request parameters) that provides the necessary value(s) that the headers provide, which is analogous to the mechanism used by most REST APIs to allow browsers to do PUT, DELETE, etc...
e.g. someURL?_acceptHeaders=text/xml;application/thingworx;bloodtype/apos -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Neo] Conneg in REST API From: Jim Webber <j...@webber.name> Date: Wed, April 21, 2010 7:00 am To: Neo user discussions <user@lists.neo4j.org> Hey Peter, If we really want to cater for non-compliant browsers, then we can dispatch on user-agent, using the same XHTML code that exists today. Jim On 21 Apr 2010, at 11:18, Peter Neubauer wrote: > Yeah, > this is good, except that some browsers, e.g. IE, don't provide these > headers and thus f... up all that nice thinking. Any idea how to cope > with that? > > [1]http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/browser-rest-http-accept-heade rs > > Cheers, > > /peter neubauer > > COO and Sales, Neo Technology > > GTalk: neubauer.peter > Skype peter.neubauer > Phone +46 704 106975 > LinkedIn [2]http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer > Twitter [3]http://twitter.com/peterneubauer > > [4]http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. > [5]http://nosqleu.com - The biggest NOSQL event. Ever. > [6]http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavias coolest Bring-a-Thing party. > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mattias Persson > <matt...@neotechnology.com> wrote: >> >> You mean using the Content-Type/Accept headers? That's at least how it's >> solved now with text/html and application/json living side to side in the >> REST API today. >> >> 2010/3/23 Jim Webber <j...@webber.name> >> >>> Just another thought: if we're going to use multiple representation >>> formats, then we should use content negotiation. >>> >>> Jim >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Neo mailing list >>> User@lists.neo4j.org >>> [7]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] >> Hacker, Neo Technology >> [8]www.neotechnology.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo mailing list >> User@lists.neo4j.org >> [9]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > [10]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org [11]https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user References 1. http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/browser-rest-http-accept-headers 2. http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer 3. http://twitter.com/peterneubauer 4. http://www.neo4j.org/ 5. http://nosqleu.com/ 6. http://www.thoughtmade.com/ 7. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user 8. http://www.neotechnology.com/ 9. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user 10. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user 11. https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
