Discussion of the appropriate design of URLs (e.g., for readability and hackability).
Questions tagged [url-design]
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RESTful url - getting new subentity
There are 2 models: Entity and Subentity. Entity can have many connected Subentities (one:many relation).
There is a method on server that returns new Subentity (let's call it GetEmptySubentity). Point is, when you want to create new Subentity, you…
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URL design: is it bad practice to use consecutive numbering in URLs for user-submitted items?
I'm working on a website where users can submit items (in this case, proposals). The simplest URL design would be something like website.com/proposal/1, website.com/proposal/2, etc. (perhaps with a slug appended) but I've never seen this done in…
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RESTful URL design for unauthenticated requests
I want to provide the ability for resetting a user`s password. This call obviously must not require authentification.
First I thought of something like this:
DELETE /users/{id}/password: generates a reset token that gets sent to the user via…
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REST resources with a triple as a parameter
When needing to create a URL that takes a finite set of parameters, where all of said parameters are semantically the same "level", what is the current consensus around the use of delimiters within URLs? Here's an example:…
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Rest design principles
Is the following a good rest design practice for listing all the subscriptions of a customer:
[BaseUrl]/subscriptions/[accountid]/payTV
[BaseUrl]/subscriptions/[accountid]/paywall
etc...
ORshould it rather…
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Which one of the following is a better Rest URL?
Just a quick question. Which one of the following makes a better Rest API Url & why so?
GET shop/department/{id}/{action}
GET shop/department/{action}/{id}
The action is a verb and it can be:
GET shop/department/{id}/download
GET…
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Pros/cons of passing a record ID through the URL vs. a parameter
I'm working on an API and am wondering if there are any advantages/disadvantages of accessing a record by passing the ID through the URL vs. as a parameter.
Example: Getting info of a message of ID 1
You could do this with example.com/messages/1…
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RESTFUL formatting of URLs
Simple question, in terms of best practice is it better to format my URL like this:
http://www.example.com/search?query=hello&page=1
or like this:
http://www.example.com/search/hello/page/1
Can you provide a valid reason for your choice please.
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URL design for city landing page: /chicago or /?_city=chicago
I am interested on thoughts about URL structure for city landing pages.
Essentially best practice and reasons for implementing format (a) over (b):
(a) example.com/chicago
(b) example.com/?_city=chicago
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