UEFA or FIFA don’t seem to provide any API to get the information you want. However, there are some third-party services which support that: OPTA – Both commercial and free. They have incredible database about matches. Whoscored.com currently uses it. Others: livescoreboards, xmlsoccer, …
Edit 5 years later Use OAuth2! Previous version No, there is absolutely no need to use a cookie. It’s not half as secure as HTTP Digest, OAuth or Amazon’s AWS (which is not hard to copy). The way you should look at a cookie is that it’s an authentication token as much as Basic/Digest/OAuth/whichever would … Read more
The term you’re looking for is geocoding and yes Google does provide this service. New V3 API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ Old V2 API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding
Invoke-WebRequest http://yourURLhere -Headers @{“accept”=”application/json”} Introduced in POSH 3.0
406 is returned by the server when it can’t respond based on accepting the request headers (ie they have an Accept header which states they only want XML). 415 is returned by the server when the entity sent in a request (content in a POST or PUT) has an unsupported mediatype (i.e. they sent XML). … Read more
SOAP uses WSDL for communication btw consumer and provider, whereas REST just uses XML or JSON to send and receive data WSDL defines contract between client and service and is static by its nature. In case of REST contract is somewhat complicated and is defined by HTTP, URI, Media Formats and Application Specific Coordination Protocol. … Read more
The API key itself is most probably a one way hash of the domain the key is associated with and a secret only the Google API server knows about. It may contain some other pieces of well-known (to Google of course) information. When you make a request from that domain, the API server takes the … Read more
As S.Lott pointed out already, we have a two folded things here: Login and authentication Authentication is out-of-scope here, as this is widely discussed and there is common agreement. However, what do we actually need for a client successfully authenticate itself against a RESTful web service? Right, some kind of token, let’s call it access-token. … Read more
I looked fairly deeply into this question for a project I am working on. GeoNames.org and EarthTools.com are both good options for many situations but with the following serious flaws: GeoNames.org finds the time zone by searching for the nearest point in their database that contains a time zone field. This often leads to the … Read more
SOAP 1.1 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ SOAP 1.2 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/ The wsdl is able to define operations under soap 1.1 and soap 1.2 at the same time in the same wsdl. Thats useful if you need to evolve your wsdl to support new functionality that requires soap 1.2 (eg. MTOM), in this case you dont … Read more