[Openstreetmap-dev] REST

SteveC steve at fractalus.com
Tue Jul 19 11:23:04 BST 2005


* @ 18/07/05 05:34:15 PM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> Am I right in undestanding that this differs from XML-RPC in that you send
> HTTP requests as URLs, rather than wrapping them up in method calls, and in
> that way it's "lower-level" but perhaps more efficient than XML-RPC?

yup

> e.g. you could use something like cURL, or JavaScript XMLHttpRequest
> (AJAX), to construct an HTTP request, get some XML (or whatever) back and
> then have your application process your XML?

yup, or whatever http library your $LANGUAGE has

> And that rather than x method calls you have x URLs which take different
> query-string (HTTP GET) parameters?

yes, put you can POST xml to it too.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/




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