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keypusher
on March 6, 2014
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Best practices for API versioning?
Why put the version in the URI at all? Can you not just use headers to request and return particular version? Is there a downside to this approach?
simlevesque
on March 6, 2014
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As others have pointed, if you try to POST a HTML5 form to any API, you can't specify the header, it will always be x-www-formurlencoded.
sureshv
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Why not use a custom type instead of the 'Content-Type' header?
Edit: Looks like this may not be possible on a HTML 5 form.
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Maybe posting should be done with a richer client-side app than a vanilla form. The unaided browser is a pretty sad user agent.
wprl
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The thing is, this isn't all that important...
wprl
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A down vote isn't a substitute for a valid reason why supporting vanilla forms is an important point in the API versioning discussion ;)
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