Links to References
===================

This page provides links to background information about the underlying web service technology.

.. note:: While we attempt to keep these links current, your mileage may vary.

.. _apiug-introref-tech:

Technology
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HTTP
^^^^
`RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (IETF) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt>`_

`Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Wikipedia) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol>`_

REST
^^^^
`Representational State Transfer (Wikipedia) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer>`_

`Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Fielding - dissertation) <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm>`_

`RESTful Web Services (O'Reilly Media) <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529260.do>`_

`Learn REST: A Tutorial <http://rest.elkstein.org/>`_

Django
^^^^^^
`Django Homepage <https://www.djangoproject.com/>`_

`Django 1.3 Documentation - QuerySet API reference - Field lookups <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/querysets/#field-lookups>`_

`Interacting With The API <https://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/interacting.html>`_

`Django and The MVC pattern in web development <http://activespark.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/django-and-the-mvc-pattern-in-web-development/>`_


PostgreSQL
^^^^^^^^^^

`PostgreSQL Documentation <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/>`_

.. _apiug-introref-tools:

Tools
-----

cURL
^^^^

`cURL Documentation and Installation <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/>`_


REST clients
^^^^^^^^^^^^

`Firefox REST Client <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/restclient/>`_

`Chrome REST Client <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-rest-client/fhjcajmcbmldlhcimfajhfbgofnpcjmb>`_

`RESTClient <http://restclient.org/>`_


Python REST libraries used in the examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
`requests.py API <https://requests.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#module-requests>`_

`restful_lib.py <https://code.google.com/p/python-rest-client/source/browse/trunk/restful_lib.py?r=10>`_

`httplib2.py <https://code.google.com/p/httplib2/>`_


Python JSON parser used in the examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
`simplejson.py <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/>`_