mod_rest: Support GET for certain IQ queries Example: GET /rest/version/example.com 200 OK { version: { name: "thing", version: "1.0.0" } }

author: Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:33:09 +0100
parent: 4477:8df6cc648963
child: 4506:508cb880b163
--- a/mod_rest/README.markdown	Sun Feb 28 19:25:45 2021 +0100
+++ b/mod_rest/README.markdown	Sun Feb 28 19:33:09 2021 +0100
@@ -101,6 +101,23 @@
 entities (connected clients or remote servers) will not be returned, but
 can be forwarded via the callback API described in the next section.
 
+### Simple info queries
+
+A subset of IQ stanzas can be sent as simple GET requests
+
+```
+curl https://prosody.example:5281/rest/version/example.com \
+    --oauth2-bearer dmVyeSBzZWNyZXQgdG9rZW4K \
+    -H 'Accept: application/json'
+```
+
+The supported queries are
+
+-   `disco`
+-   `items`
+-   `version`
+-   `ping`
+
 ## Receiving stanzas
 
 TL;DR: Set this webhook callback URL, get XML `POST`-ed there.