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.

Technology¶

HTTP¶

RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1 (IETF)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Wikipedia)

REST¶

Representational State Transfer (Wikipedia)

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Fielding - dissertation)

RESTful Web Services (O’Reilly Media)

Learn REST: A Tutorial

Django¶

Django Homepage

Django 1.3 Documentation - QuerySet API reference - Field lookups

Interacting With The API

Django and The MVC pattern in web development

PostgreSQL¶

PostgreSQL Documentation

Tools¶

cURL¶

cURL Documentation and Installation

REST clients¶

Firefox REST Client

Chrome REST Client

Python REST libraries used in the examples¶

requests.py API

Python JSON parser used in the examples¶

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Links to References
- Technology
  - HTTP
  - REST
  - Django
  - PostgreSQL
- Tools

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