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copied!<p>Although I have wrapped countless web services in an OOP-ish way, I find it difficult to come up with a good answer to your question.</p> <p>A couple of Yahoo API examples can be found here: <a href="http://curlobjects.com/trac/browser/trunk/lib/YahooApi" rel="noreferrer">http://curlobjects.com/trac/browser/trunk/lib/YahooApi</a></p> <blockquote> <p>1 Interpreting HTTP error codes and filtering protocol errors from API errors.</p> </blockquote> <p>My base http class has an http error callback that can be overriden.</p> <blockquote> <p>2 Building URL based requests, possibly with pattern matching and token substitution.</p> </blockquote> <p>I prefer string concatenation.</p> <blockquote> <p>4 How to map an OO model to the REST model. Some requests suit static methods, e.g. getting lists, and others hang in the middle between static and instance, maybe a plain provider pattern with all static methods?</p> </blockquote> <p>Sometime you need one big static factory/provider, sometimes you want a class for each method, sometimes a class for each group of related methods... There really isn't one proper way to go about this. I always spend some time getting a feel of the service's structure and then try to find an elegant way to abstract the repetitive parts.</p> <p>If you have any more specific questions regarding login forms, cookies, etc, I'd be glad to answer them.</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p>HttpWebRequest was mentioned and I'm guessing you either need to set the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.clientcertificates.aspx" rel="noreferrer">ClientCertificate property</a> and use SSL properly, or you can <a href="http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/48909.aspx" rel="noreferrer">ignore all SLL errors</a> with a CertificatePolicy.</p>

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