Hi, Let's assume we have a resource representing a collection, e.g. / people, and the server has a mechanism to decide whether representations that are posted...
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Julian Reschke
JulianReschke
Oct 1, 2008 8:36 am
... How about 200? BR, Julian...
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Robert Cerny
robert_cerny
Oct 1, 2008 9:57 am
Hi Julian, ... I am torn between 200 and 204. After rereading the relevant section in the HTTP RFC [1], i might favor 204. What do you think? In my setup it...
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Miika Makinen
khmerang
Oct 1, 2008 10:35 am
To my understanding 303 makes sense if the client is adviced in the future to PUT directly to the resource rather than POSTing to the collection....
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Robert Cerny
robert_cerny
Oct 1, 2008 4:46 pm
... That's how i read it too. But the resource IS updated by the POST in my case, so even though the clients learns about the URL with the 303, he does not...
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Subbu Allamaraju
sallamar
Oct 1, 2008 4:56 pm
303 does not mean that the client needs to a PUT at that Location. In the context of POST, it just means that, whatever changes that the client asked for have...
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mike amundsen
mamund
Oct 2, 2008 2:54 am
I thought about this DELETE w/ notation pattern some more and worked up another possible solution that *does* support conditional DELETE and proper cache...
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Sean Kennedy
seandkennedy
Oct 2, 2008 2:09 pm
Hi, I just want to confirm if this is accurate: 1. POX tunnels all its messages using POST i.e. no GETs 2. the URI used is the same URI for all POX services at...
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Chris Burdess
dog@...
Oct 2, 2008 2:17 pm
... No. POX just refers to the HTTP entity format, saying that it's only the content that's transferred in the entity and not any metadata. It says nothing...
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Sebastien Lambla
serialseb
Oct 2, 2008 3:30 pm
No. POX just refers to the HTTP entity format, saying that it's only the content that's transferred in the entity and not any metadata. It says nothing about...
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Aristotle Pagaltzis
a22pag
Oct 2, 2008 9:46 pm
In the most general sense, POX means REST minus the hypermedia constraint and with uselessly generic media types: a service that serves and consumes XML...
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Stefan Tilkov
stilkov
Oct 2, 2008 10:40 pm
I don't believe "POX" is officially defined anywhere. But I've only ever seen it used as "like SOAP, but without the envelope" (i.e. your option 3). Stefan -- ...
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Subbu Allamaraju
sallamar
Oct 2, 2008 10:46 pm
That's my impression as well. That's how I have used it, and seen it being used. What Sean is describing in the original question is similar to XML-RPC. Subbu ...
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Aristotle Pagaltzis
a22pag
Oct 2, 2008 11:14 pm
... The way I remember it used back when it was a positive term (during the first wave of SOAP backlash pre REST awareness), it really did mean more than...
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Alan Dean
alan_james_dean
Oct 3, 2008 10:48 am
... POX was not / is not a 'standard' in any way that I'm aware of. I was using XML-over-HTTP by POSTing back in 2000/2001. Later, this was classified as POX...
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Aristotle Pagaltzis
a22pag
Oct 3, 2008 1:21 pm
... I don’t think anyone claimed otherwise. POX was/is a meme, nothing concrete. What I described is the kind of service that I remember being classified as...
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Bill de hOra
bdehora
Oct 4, 2008 1:12 pm
POX to me means REST-as-in-HTTP, - without ensuring client application state is on the client - without ensuring resources are addressable - without regard for...
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Andrzej Jan Taramina
ataramina
Oct 5, 2008 1:47 pm
Anyone know of any webmail or forum (discussion/bulletin board) open source applications that use REST to access the back end message store? Thanks! -- Andrzej...
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Sean Kennedy
seandkennedy
Oct 6, 2008 5:07 pm
Bill, Thanks. I think your point about caching intermediaries is very salient. I have read about SOAP i.e. RPC implementations where (in order to improve...
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Sebastien Lambla
serialseb
Oct 6, 2008 8:44 pm
Thanks. I think your point about caching intermediaries is very salient. I have read about SOAP i.e. RPC implementations where (in order to improve...
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Paul Downey
sumnerdowney
Oct 6, 2008 8:50 pm
please forgive the overt self-pimping, but I suspect readers of this list may enjoy my doodle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/2918889380/ Hug a middleware...
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Justin Sheehy
macsithigh_f...
Oct 6, 2008 9:43 pm
Hello rest-discussers, I thought that some of you might find this interesting: http://blog.therestfulway.com/2008/09/webmachine-is-resource-server-for-web.html...
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Benoît Fleury
benoit_f4y
Oct 6, 2008 10:34 pm
Hi, I have a question regarding the Accept HTTP header. From the HTTP spec I read "The Accept request-header field can be used to specify certain media types...
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Justin Sheehy
macsithigh_f...
Oct 6, 2008 10:49 pm
Hello Benoit, You certainly can have different representations prepared ahead of time at separate URIs. The Accept request header helps you not need to, but...
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Subbu Allamaraju
sallamar
Oct 6, 2008 10:55 pm
... You can certainly use different URIs for each format, but doing so can break caching. When you use the Accept header to determine which format to return,...
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Benoît Fleury
benoit_f4y
Oct 6, 2008 11:06 pm
Hi, thanks for your answers. Actually I do not control the image URIs. I know the list and I have to return the XML document with the link to the correct...
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Subbu Allamaraju
sallamar
Oct 7, 2008 12:12 am
... How about using links? Here is an example: <myresource> <link href="URI to a pdf representation"; rel="alternate" type="application/pdf"/> <link href="URI...
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Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez
Oct 7, 2008 1:31 pm
Hello, I'm having a hard time designing a restful domain specific XML vocabulary. How should I link to other resources and others representations of the...
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Subbu Allamaraju
sallamar
Oct 7, 2008 9:27 pm
What is so complex about using the first choice below? Subbu ... http://subbu.org...
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Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez
Oct 7, 2008 10:57 pm
... I believe <link> is too generic/extensible, designed so that you can fully describe a link only with attributes instead of having to define new XML...
