Use RESTful service URLs

Under REST principles, a URL identifies a resource. The following URL design patterns are considered REST best practices:

• URLs should include nouns, not verbs.
• Use plural nouns only for consistency (no singular nouns).
• Use HTTP methods (HTTP/1.1) to operate on these resources:
• Use HTTP response status codes to represent the outcome of operations on resources.

Response Http Status Code

• 200 OK
• 400 Bad Request
• 500 Internal Server Error

Other commonly seen codes include:

• 201 Created
• 204 No Content
• 401 Unauthorized
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found

jQuery Ajax Request

• type: ‘GET’ —- dataType: ‘xml|json|script|text|html’ -> response http status code: 200 / 404
• type: ‘POST’ —– dataType: ‘xml|json’ -> response http status code: 201 (created) / 405 (Method Not Allowed)
• type: ‘PUT’ —— dataType: ‘xml|json’ -> response http status code: 200 / 404