title: REST API for Windows Azure Mobile Services
body: <p>One of the things I enjoy about Parse is the REST API which allows me to send push notifications to "channels" from an external website. I am curious if this, or something similar is available with Windows Azure Mobile Services.</p>
  
  <p>From what I can see, the best way to achieve this result is to create a table which stores push notifications on the Azure Mobile Services. Override the onInsert node.js script to send a push when a record is inserted.  The insert is coming through the existing REST API which does allow me to interact with the tablet itself.</p>
  
  <p>What I would like is the ability to provide, for example, my iOS Device Token to the API along with various application access credentials to a REST endpoint and use Mobile Services to send the notification on my behalf, while keeping the information on those clients in my own database hosted in SQL Azure or another location.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any insight.</p>
  
  <p>Jason</p>