2016
Paw – The most advanced HTTP client for Mac
by manu
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Whether you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
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2011
Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services (Confoo11 2011-03-10)
by ghis
How to well design a restful web service.
2010
Poster :: Add-ons for Firefox
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results...
very neat and useful indeed!
2009
Understanding Browser HTTP Accept Headers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and WebKit (Safari / Chrome)
by marco
Content-negotiation with the Accept header is an interesting idea in principle that is hard to use properly in practice because browsers misuse it
brdfdr.com (Birdfeeder)
by Xavier Lacot & 2 others
Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation of a RESTful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called Fethr (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over HTTP Requests). It proposes all the traditionnal features of the microblogging. Can be tested at http://river.cs.rice.edu/bird/
brdfdr.com (Birdfeeder)
by marco & 2 others
Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation of a RESTful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called FETHR (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over HTTP Requests).
2008
Recess! Framework
by Xavier Lacot
The Recess! Framework is built from the ground up to conform to the HTTP protocol. This makes REST a natural fit. From 100s to 505s, from GETs to PUTs, Recess! makes it straightforward for your web apps to play nice
InfoQ: Hypermedia in RESTful applications
by nhoizey
Flickr's current approach of requiring that clients possess Flickr-specific knowledge in order to progress from one application state to another, is simply another way of saying that they have a proprietary application model. Not only is it proprietary th
