Agenda Request - HTTP API

[martinthomson]

Agenda+: Attaching API calls to HTTP exchanges

One of the key items we identified as a likely essential extension to a core attribution API was the ability to have the API invoked as a side effect of ordinary HTTP requests. That's how the business operates today with its pixels and whatnot.

Things get a little gross when you want to have the browser generate responses to requests from servers, so you end up with API requests being carried in HTTP responses and API responses being carried in subsequent HTTP requests. But if we hold our noses for long enough to get over that, it's possible to build something that isn't too offensive... I think.

We've some sketches of how this might work with our current API. We hope to have more fully developed proposals to share before we meet.

Time

20-30 minutes.

Links

• Saving impressions using an HTTP-based API ppa-api#46
• Partial HTTP API for delegation ppa-api#47
• Full HTTP API for delegation ppa-api#48

[AramZS]

Added to the agenda for day 1! https://github.com/patcg/meetings/pull/209/files

[martinthomson]

Presentation and initial pull request.