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General discussion about REpresentational State Transfer, the name given to the architectural style which describes the best behaved subset of the World Wide Web (circa 1993), as determined by Roy Fielding.

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Re: the meaning of stateless My other takeaway would be to use PUT to initiate the transaction -- the URL being provided with the confirmation of the purchase, and the method chosen Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 4:25 am	Eric J. Bowman eric@... Send Email
Re: the meaning of stateless ... I agree with Roy about POST lacking visibility, but agree with your point that this is no reason to throw the "REST" of the style to the breeze when using Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 4:04 am	Eric J. Bowman eric@... Send Email
Re: the meaning of stateless ... I think "stateful"; is exactly what Roy meant but didn't want to say; why else point out that the concern should be what properties are _lost_ by Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 3:50 am	Eric J. Bowman eric@... Send Email
Re: the meaning of stateless ... I'd say that how RESTful it is, depends entirely on the ubiquity of the media type used (text/html good, application/vnd.order+xml bad), and depends on at Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 3:49 am	Eric J. Bowman eric@... Send Email
Re: the meaning of stateless ... "Representation by reference" is a great label. Thanks for the link to the old post. And Mike A., thanks for your example shopping cart solutions. -- Matt Posted - Fri May 10, 2013 1:30 pm	Matt McClure matthewlmcclure Send Email
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