After a year at the bottom of my drawer, I have busted out my Pimoroni Flotilla. It has a Python API and so I figured this was as good a time as any to use Python3 for the first time in many years. Part of the kit is

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The latest Atom-over-XMPP IETF draft expired two months ago.

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I’m an idiot and req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path+'?'+url.query) is my friend. Just playing around with Ruby and the Yahoo Web Services. The example they give for calling a web service is this:

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I think that James Snell’s post on this pretty much covers my thoughts on the matter. Me: Screw that, use Atom and HTTP POST and GET and all that REST stuff instead.

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9.6 The Slug: Header Slug is a HTTP entity-header whose value is a “slug” – a short name that can be used as part of the URI for a Member Resource. When posting an entity to a Collection to add a new Member, the server MAY use this information when creating the Member URI of the newly-created resource, for instance by using some or all of the words in the last URI seg...

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