http://simonwillison.net/2008-10-13T12:45:13+00:00Simon Willison2008-10-13T12:45:13+00:002008-10-13T12:45:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/13/peter/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://barelyenough.org/blog/2008/05/versioning-rest-web-services/">Versioning REST Web Services</a></strong></p> Peter Williams suggests using a vendor MIME media type in the Accept header to specify a required API version, because embedding the API version in the URL itself leads to a single resource ending up with many different URLs, one for each API version. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accept">accept</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/contentnegotiation">contentnegotiation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/peter-williams">peter-williams</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rest">rest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/versioning">versioning</a></p>