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		asthasr on March 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing a RESTful API That Doesn't Suck This is what I've done in APIs I designed. You end up with requests like this: `POST /widgets Content-Type: application/json -- {"name": "An example widget", "color": "blue"}` With the response being: `201 CREATED Location: /widgets/37 -- (no body)`

untothebreach on March 22, 2013 [–]

yes, I know I have read somewhere that this is "recommended" for REST apis, but I'll be damned if I can find the source.

asthasr on March 23, 2013 | [–]

This is the pattern that's recommended in Thomas Erl's SOA with REST book. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0137012519)

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