Of course it depends on your use case, but in my situation I use client side
scripting to make the PUT call.
I've found the Backbone.JS framework to make doing REST from javascript
clients quite good:
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone
Tauren
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:41 AM, John Lister <john.lister_at_kickstone.com>wrote:
> Hi, just been following the thread about restful methods of calling an
> sproc, and got me thinking. I'd be grateful for your opinions on this
> question:
>
> What is the best way to offer a restful interface accessable by a web
> browser and also automated clients?
>
> For example say I want to add a resource, the restful way is to use PUT,
> which I have no problem with, but say I want to allow that from a html page
> which only offer GET/POST for form actions. How would you work around this,
> the alternatives seem to be:
> - ignore put and just use POST
> - implement both and have POST determine the correct action based on a
> parameter
> - use client side (ajax style) scripting to make a PUT call and process the
> result
>
> How would you do it?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>