Is there a canonical/RESTful way to send query details to a server during a GET?

Question

I\'m designing a (more or less) RESTful internal web service running on ASP.NET and IIS. I want clients to be able to pass query details to the server when accessing large

Answer 1

An interesting problem. I don't have the specifics on what you are trying to do, but I wonder if it is too much to gracefully handle with one resource. You may want to break it up into several different types depending on the main characteristics of the request. If you are just trying to expose what should be a SQL query through an HTTP request, then I don't think there is any way it can can be implemented without a mess. Just pass the SQL query in the query string and stop trying to find a proper way to do it - it doesn't exist.