And now just in time for Valentines Day... http://www.cafeshops.com/rest (notice the elegance of this RESTful URL provided by this Web service) My personal...
I have continued to explore the possibility of supporting FSMs (finite state machines) and workflows with REST-ful applications. In order to do so I've...
Why not access all of the various functionality of a service by specifying different ACCEPT values on the request? So, if I want the service's response in XML...
... There are two basic issues, the most fundamental of which is that the metadata should be a standalone resource with it's own URI so that all normal HTTP...
There must be a way to get to a service's metadata given only the service's URI. To require modifying the URI to get the metadata could modify the service, or...
... You could just call HEAD and no entity would be returned. Still, this is part of the reason why I've suggested that the OPTIONS method could be used for...
I like your idea of using OPTIONS, but it does seem to be a retrofit to its intended purpose of probing HTTP servers (and proxies) for their supported methods,...
... You may very well be right, but I look at the sentence: "This method allows the client to determine the options and/or requirements associated with a...
RDDL? #metadata-whatsit? What's the problem? jb...
Jeff Bone
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Feb 15, 2003 7:22 am
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... Good question. :) People have been considering mechanisms for binding metadata to a resource. HTTP Extensions for Resource Metadata (HERM) [1] looks to be...
... Good question. :) People have been considering mechanisms for binding metadata to a resource. HTTP Extensions for Resource Metadata (HERM) [1] looks to be...
Hello All, I don't really want to bring the dreaded 'What do URIs identify?' debate which consumes the tag-list every once and a while to this peaceful list,...
I think you might consider adding a disclaimer, much like this mail, to the front of the paer, saying that "these are your thoughts." For example, Roy Fielding...
Sam Hunting
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Feb 16, 2003 1:16 am
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Another HTTP Client in Java. Looks newer. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/features.html Features ... Standards based, pure Java, implementation of...
... Question: By my understanding of REST, the whole purpose of URIs is to provide a means of addressing a resource which is then available via the various...
Thanks, Mike. I *really* coulda used this about six months ago! Walden ... From: "S. Mike Dierken" <mdierken@...> To: <rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com> ...
We used it at Planetfred/Idokorro some time ago, but I didn't realize it was at Apache. Great. We had some problems with it, though I forget what they were...
On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 07:59 US/Central, ... A URI, even an HTTP URI, that cannot be dereferenced nonetheless provides a unique name for an abstract...
Jeff Bone
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Feb 18, 2003 3:51 pm
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... Yes, believe me I do get that point. :) Maybe I can re-phrase this somehow... REST is an architectural style for referencing resources across HTTP, right? ...
Is anybody really interested in URIs that's you can't dereference? And also, I'd like to point out that you can dereference URNs... various protocols do exist...
... Well, many namespace names are URIs. While there is some (much) debate, I think many don't expect to dereference a namespace name. There seems to be a...
Chuck Hinson
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Feb 18, 2003 7:51 pm
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I'll preface this by saying I'm a REST newbie, so please be gentle... :) ... And this goes to the heart of my problem with this approach: one of the ...
... I think you have some terminology confused here. REST as an architectural style has no concept of URI/URLs; it only talks about identifiers. The...
Chuck Hinson
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Feb 19, 2003 2:32 am
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... From: "Chuck Hinson" <cmhinson@...> ... Technically, HTTP supports requests against non 'http' URI. == getting ldap entries == GET...
... Chuck, You really cleared things up for me. I was running into this exact problem in my argument, assuming that REST was tied to the web environment. So it...
From InternetNews.com [1] : "The OASIS standards consortium Tuesday took another leap forward toward securing Web services with the ratification of Extensible...
Robert Leftwich
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Feb 19, 2003 10:01 pm
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Not knowing a lot about the various options out there, is there an interface description language that is being used to describe RESTful interfaces? For ...
... From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@...> ... interface ... There was some mail a while ago on this - its a recurring issue. Let's start a Wiki page on...
