mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2008 | javascript, security, rest, api, csrfI couldn't find a good description on the web about securing REST API's against drive-by requests (unauthorized 3rd party calls when you visit a malicious web site).
Here's what I've pieced together today by examining what del.icio.us is doing to secure it's REST api.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 24 2007 | o'reilly, rest, soap, excel, vb, web services
Quoted: Most of the VB/VBA web service examples out there demonstrate SOAP interfaces, but it is often easier to call them through REST.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 17 2007 | web development, youtube, api, rest
How to get the thumbnail url for any YouTube video:
get_details returns a thumbnail_url parameter in XML.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2006 | javascript, ajax, rest, api, web 2.0, json
Summary article on the popular sites with Rest and XML API's.
Quoted: Even though it’s theoretically possible to request this data from Flickr using XMLHttpRequest on the client-side, there’s one problem: cross site scripting. Currently, most browsers ...
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Because JSON is a JavaScript string, if you specify a server-side script that returns JSON as the source for a <script> tag on your HTML page, it will automatically download the JSON and run it - creating a new data structure available to the code on your page: - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 21 2006 | spam, blogs, comments, rest, api, web services, blue dot
Use extensively on WordPress - could be helpful to us in battling comment spam if we ever allow "public" commenting.
Could even be used against public dot text as well to flag possible spam dots.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2005 | Web Development, REST
The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 21 2005 | Rest, Web Development
Definition of REST (Representational State Transfer) software architecure.
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