The Well-Formed Web

Exploring the limits of XML and HTTP

Updates to the Comment API

I have updated the Comment API to include the auto-discovery of the Comment API URI via link element on the HTML page. You will note that the rel name is set to "service.comment". I came up with this when I realized that all the other link elements I had seen described GET acccessible end-points. In this case the end-point is a target for POST and I felt the need to distinguish it as such.

2003-01-23 15:30 Comments (2)

The API looks very interesting and as far as I can see has great potential for gathering together all the different methods of responding to blogs. I don't know whether you have support from other blogging tools for the idea but I intend to implement it in mine in the near future. The idea of being able to get everything in at one point and even use that as the basis for displaying everything together is an attractive one. Thanks for a well considered push in the right direction.

Posted by Adrian Frost on 2003-03-13 01:59

Adrian, Thanks for the nice words. There is movement on support for this interface. See these threads for more details: http://bitworking.org/news/52 and http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1261.html

Posted by Joe on 2003-03-13 08:44

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