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Table of Contents

• End Point
  • is valid and available
• Landing Page
  • uses HTML5
  • has links to Discovery Documents in Head
• OpenSearch Document
  • is accessible
  • HTML API Search
  • Atom API Search
• Discovery Service
  • Using Google API Discovery Document
    • is accessible
    • contains API metadata
  • Using Geoservices Discovery Catalog
  • Using Atompub
  • No Discovery Document
• API Explorer
  • link can be discovered
• Uniform Interface
  • uses limited http verbs
  • follows idempotence rules
• Content Negotiation
  • uses Accept and Content Type headers
    • should support Accept and Content Type headers
  • allows representation suffixes
  • supports custom mime types
• Atom Feeds
  • are available for lists of resources
  • may be extended
  • are extended using GData 2.0 protocol
• Compression
  • should use GZIP as possible to reduce bandwidth
• Caching
  • [Caching Headers] (#Caching_Caching)
  • GData 2.0 Caching Headers
  • Expires Headers
  • Frontend Caching
• Hypermedia As The Engine Of State
  • Embedded links in resources
  • Defines links relations
• Security
  • defines security protocol
• Cross Origin Resource Sharing
  • supports cross-origin resource sharing