There was a thread on this here back in January[1]: http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/17219 As mentioned in that thread, for the...
... Not necessarily the case. If you setup the forward proxy as the one starting TLS, then the proxy can cache. The same goes for the server side too where a...
... Are there approaches to client side tls terminating reverse proxies that do not require the proxy to rewrite all the URIs in the response representations?...
[sorry Erik, just found this in the moderation queue... Mark] hello mike. ... this looks very interesting! it has many similarities to something rosa alarcon...
I have to wonder if this isn't simply duplicating work that already exists. Topic maps have a data model more than adequate to do this sort of thing (on...
... Quite possible. There is a quite a bit of gap in what hypertext driven apps expect and what off-the-shelf proxies/caches can do today. In one of my...
Hi all, To indicate which representation of a resource was sent, the server can use the Content-Location header. E.g., if a client wants an HTML version in...
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Eric J. Bowman
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Jul 8, 2011 6:56 pm
... By using 303 redirects and cookies... ... I don't know about that. Try my demo, date/title links and the View menu work: ...
Hi Eric, ... That's certainly an interesting approach… ... …and I suppose one could interpret this as graceful degradation. Also, seen the content of the...
Dear ladies and sirs. Please, forgive me for this long post, but I have to present the full context, before actually asking my question. Whoever is going to...
What about using ETags? With ETags the client can send an if-none-match header to do a conditional GET it will receive 304 Not Modified status as long as the...
1. I was thinking that a client receives an ETag that represents the current state of the files on the server. The first time the client connects it would not...
Hello This is my first post which is going to be first of many. The company I work for have started to create RESTful services with most of the development...
Hi, ... A "200" status code indicate success, and this is not the case. Currently, your example is not RESTful, e.g., you're not using HTTP as intended, but...
... I disagree here. The request for the resource was NOT successful. Yes, the client was able to reach the server and the server was able to return a...
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Eric J. Bowman
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Jul 13, 2011 7:14 pm
... Your responses are mostly spot-on; however, there's nothing inherently wrong with a 200 response for unauthorized users. An authentication challenge is...
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Eric J. Bowman
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Jul 13, 2011 7:21 pm
... The REST architectural style doesn't use request brokers. This may well be how your system works in practice, but conceptually it's at odds with the REST...
... I agree that it is not a requirement of REST or HTTP, but it is a requirement for this particular application (as far as I understood from the question)....
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Eric J. Bowman
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Jul 18, 2011 1:51 pm
... That's a tricky question. There's obviously room for improvements to content negotiation in a successor protocol to HTTP. In HTTP 1.1, no instance of...
... I think I've misunderstood you, but.. what does statelessness of HTTP 1.1 have to do with omitting the inverse of a CL? Cheers, Mike...
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Eric J. Bowman
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Jul 20, 2011 11:38 am
... Using the example in the OP, /news/40.es.html could be the response Content-Location for more than one URI, i.e. /news/40 and /headline- news/40 -- think...
... Because one of them objectively is (or could be) the canonical URI. Why is it important that the server use the client's context to decide the canonical...
Hi, I've been reading a lot about how to do "proper" REST this week and the more I read, the more I'm lost, especially the HATEOAS part I fear. First, to give...
