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  • Look at my edit. "reload" is not a command that returns data. It refers to the REST web service itself. In general terms, my question refers about triggering actions in a REST web service. Other example can be: email_queue/stop_sending_emails. I am justing giving a command to something using a RESTful interface. Commented Nov 2, 2014 at 2:52
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    I still agree. Invoking SIGHUP on a local process makes sense, since the computer should trust someone logged in locally who has access to that signal. But for a stateless, Internet-accessible protocol? Perhaps the web service should automatically reload as necessary via polling or file monitoring. This call should be completely unnecessary. Commented Nov 2, 2014 at 3:50
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    I agree. Things like configuration and caching are meant to be transparent to the client. Maybe you should give us a more concrete description of a situation in which your endpoint would be called. Commented Nov 3, 2014 at 21:26