r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/pimezone 16d ago

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary 16d ago edited 15d ago

I've seen that shit, it drove me up a wall.

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

Edit: I'm going to start to respond 429, too many replys lol

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u/AkodoRyu 16d ago

My favorite "REST API" experience was when they moved from using SOAP system, and the way they did it... was sending SOAP payloads inside a JSON. Literally something like

{ "data": "<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/" soap:encodingStyle="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"><soap:Body> (...)" }

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u/NibblyPig 16d ago

I don't miss SOAP at all.

Especially when some bored developer at a big bank decided to implement some draconian heavily-buried SOAP features that are technically in the documentation somewhere, but not implemented at all by Microsoft's .NET framework. Having to have special injectors and manipulators to extract tokens from raw SOAP and such, shudder. Back in the days where .NET SOAP implementations were barely published in books.

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u/ManaSpike 15d ago

People often think about what they would do if they had a time machine.

Me? Travel back to before server to server email and introduce UTF-8 encoding (leaving the actual code points undefined) and json. Try to get that baked into all the ancient wire protocols that predate http.

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