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Re: OpenStack API Versioning Conventions

 

2011/10/11 George Reese <george.reese@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Versioning should not be included in the URI. It belongs in the headers. A URI should be a persistent reference to a resource. As such, versioning always breaks that persistent reference.

I don't follow. If the version is included in the URI, that's got to
be a more persistent reference to a resource than a URI whose
behaviour differs depending on a header that you have to include?

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