On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote:

> I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update 
> [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary 
> database, "WordShack".

I can't help you with your actual question---except to wish you good 
luck---but have you read RESTful WEB SERVICES by Leonard Richardson and 
Sam Ruby (O'Reilly, 2007) (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260)?

It's excellent.  You probably already know about it, but if not, it'll be 
a big help.  Not only does it explain about REST, by doing so it explains 
how the web works.  It changed how I think.

Bill
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