RESTful Design: Paging Collections

Question

I am designing a REST api that needs paging (per x) enforces from the server side.

What would be the right way to page through any collection of resources:

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Answer 1

What the URI looks like is not the most important part. What you should be thinking about instead is how it is presented to the user. A page should for example have a link to the "next" page and another link to the "previous" page (if there is one). Take a look at RFC 5005 Feed Paging and Archiving