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icebraining on Oct 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful A...

Why not:

  > POST /search
  > #query data
  < 201 CREATED
  < Location: /search/2324242
  > GET /search/2324242
  < 200 OK
  > GET /search/2324242?page=2
  < 200 OK

(hopefully the representation would be an implementation of a standard paged format, like RFC 5005, but I'm not holding my breath)

cientifico on Nov 6, 2013 [–]

Because if you are not changing nothing on the server, you should not use POST requests.

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