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The act of converting a URL Template into a valid resource URL is called "expansion". This is something a consumer of your services might consider building. However, at a minimum, any human agent can review the URL Templates you provide and benefit from self-documenting APIs...which is a major objective of REST!

Embracing SRP Utilities 2.1

The most recent release of SRP Utilities includes many handy services. The SRP_DateTime function, in particular, has been incorporated into the SRP HTTP Framework. We are using it to replace all calls to Utility_DotNet("TIMEZONE") as a way of producing a UTC date/time stamp. We discovered that in some cases Utility_DotNet is unable to return the proper local time which results in a Get_Status() error...which then leads to 502 Bad Gateway errors. Ouch! Suffice to say that the SRP HTTP Framework 4.0.6 requires SRP Utilities 2.1.

4.0.5

More Logging TLC

The more logging gets used the more ways we see how this can be improved. Here is a summary of what we've added:

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