The FotoBilder client protocol is designed to provide client authors with a flexible, easy-to-use interface to the FotoBilder server. It supports a variety of ways to send and receive data via HTTP (including SOAP, XML-RPC, and a "Simple" mode), so clients can use whichever method is best supported on their platform. There are interfaces for uploading pictures as well as retrieving useful account information and more functionality will likely be added as the need arises.
The protocol described in this document is actually the second generation of FotoBilder's original HTTP-based client protocol. The first generation worked, but was clunky and made writing clients difficult. The one 'upload' method became extremely overloaded and nothing was every fully documented or implemented. A complete rewrite was needed to make everything clean and spur more client development, so the new protocol is less of a revision and more of a complete rewrite. With the new protocol, we've focused on providing more functionality and eliminating client development obstacles.
Major design goals for the new protocol include:
Brad Whitaker <whitaker@danga.com>, Danga Interactive