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

If using dedicated 'aggregate' resources as fumanchu said above does not work for you, you can also try if you can move representations of less volatile resources to caches to reduce load on your system. For example: HTML pages on the 'human' Web often include loads and loads of images and the many sub request are of no concern there.