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Is there anything in the header of an HTTP request that would allow me to differentiate between an AJAX call and a direct browser request from a given client? Are the user agent strings usually the same regardless?
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AJAX stands for asynchronous javascript and XML so if you are using javascript to load data after the browser request has finished you are doing AJAX. REST on the other hand stands for Representational State Transfer which as Stefan Billet pointed out uses HTTP requests to transfer data.
AJAX just uses a combination of: A browser built-in XMLHttpRequest object (to request data from a web server) JavaScript and HTML DOM (to display or use the data)
get() executes an Ajax GET request. The returned data (which can be any data) will be passed to your callback handler. $(selector). load() will execute an Ajax GET request and will set the content of the selected returned data (which should be either text or HTML).
If you use Prototype, jQuery, Mootools or YUI you should find a X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest header which will do the trick for you. It should be possible to insert whatever header you like with other libraries.
At the lowest level, given a XMLHttpRequest or XMLHTTP object, you can set this header with the setRequestHeader method as follows:
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
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