batch http requests

Question

Does anyone know a standard way to batch http requests? Meaning - sending multiple http atomic requests in one round trip?

We need such mechanism in our REST API implem

Answer 1

That's a problem with REST. They are at entity level. The REST idea is to have each URL uniquely identify a resource. Of course you can introduce aggregated resource. For ex, www.yoursite.com/customerA?include=Orders,Faults,Incidents This returns the XML for CustomerA but also returns the Orders, faults, Incidents of the customer as embedded collection.