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HTTP headers, media-types, methods, relations and status codes, all summarized and linking to their specification.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-10-19 · latest 2025-07-09

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  1. …have well-defined behaviour , including the very important things like idempotence and caching: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well/blob/master/m...
    comment by troupo · 2025-07-09 · in Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
  2. …(docs https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/tree/master... ) and this: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by troupo · 2025-07-09 · in Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
  3. …about best practices, but these two resources are a good reference point: - Know Your HTTP Well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well - HTTP Decision Diagram: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
    comment by troupo · 2024-05-28 · in So many feed readers, so many behaviors
  4. HTTP decision diagram: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram and Know Your HTTP Well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by troupo · 2024-04-11 · in ETag and HTTP Caching
  5. …the PNG: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c26df6d372790e9f24d7e16d2... ) - Know your HTTP well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by troupo · 2023-12-28 · in It's time to put REST to rest
  6. Those are literally standards. With very specific semantics and expectations https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well/blob/master/m...
    comment by dmitriid · 2022-11-17 · in HTML is all you need to make a website
  7. I wish more people knew about this: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram and https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by dmitriid · 2022-10-30 · in Optimizing images with the HTML <picture> tag
  8. …to specs) https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/blob/master... - Know your HTTP well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by dmitriid · 2019-05-18 · in Standards.REST: A Collection of HTTP/REST API Standards and Specs
  9. Part of HTTP: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well/blob/master/m... For a fascinating overview how all of HTTP fits together I also recommend the HTTP decision diagram: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/blob/master.…
    comment by dmitriid · 2018-05-01 · in You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
  10. …based on know-your-http-well[1] : * http://bin.hyperrest.com/ * http://httpflies.com/ [1]: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
    comment by andreineculau · 2015-12-08 · in Choosing an HTTP Status Code
  11. …to change the HTTP method to GET. 307 is the temporary redirect, equivalent to the permanent 301. https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well/blob/master/s...
    comment by andreineculau · 2015-12-08 · in Choosing an HTTP Status Code
  12. …perhaps even giving an indication how to fix the problem. There is a wealth of status codes < https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well/blob/master/s... and many of them semantically map to typical application error states, and it's…
    comment by bmn_ · 2015-10-19 · in Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST