Rest vs. XML-RPC

(Mom, you can skip this one).

XML-RPC (XML Remote Procedure Call) and REST (Representational State Transfer) are two different architectures for enabling conversations between web sites and robots. People argue to the point of tragedy over which is "better," "simpler," "easier," and "more correct."

While perusing the Weblogs.com API, I was impressed that they had made their data available over both XML-RPC and REST, and also that the two formats were functionally equivalent.The explanation of their XML-RPC API takes two and a half pages and 364 words. The documentation of their REST API takes 80 words and two and a half paragraphs.

I bet Skynet uses REST.

Comments

[Mom]

I refuse to be TYPEcast, and will read all posts, even when they are unintelligible.

[adriana]

"me i'd rather be undefined not underestimated or undermined"--Aceyalone

Go Erica! I read all of your posts, David, and click on links. FYI.