... What it said was pretty good though, even just this sentence; "Visibility in this case refers to the ability of a component to monitor or mediate the...
... Well, its one of those definitions where my reaction is "OK - now what does that mean." I'm sure its an accurate and succinct definition, its just too...
Chuck Hinson
cmhinson@...
May 1, 2003 7:49 pm
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... Why it's important? Hmm... There are several places where it comes into play: o efficient intermediaries - security across trust boundaries Many networks...
... Mike> What are the differences between SMTP and message queueing Mike> (besides cost)? I think the basics are: 1. Transactions (one or more messages within...
... I am wondering how much thought you have put into application security and how it fits in with REST. Do you have a model for how application security...
[prior discussion about SOAP and message-queues elided] Its nice that they defined a protocol for these things on top of SOAP, but is there any reason to ...
... S> Its nice that they defined a protocol for these things on top S> of SOAP, but is there any reason to believe that if they had S> put this design effort...
... [. . .] So is it fair to say that visibility is about a third party's ability to understand the intent or meaning of a message or an interaction? And ...
Chuck Hinson
cmhinson@...
May 2, 2003 4:14 am
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Berend, If these are your major objections, I think HTTP/SMTP based transactions look fairly plausible: --On Friday, May 02, 2003 11:45 AM +1200 Berend de Boer...
... Alex> Presumably, when an entity receives a PREPARE request, it Alex> attempts to PREPARE any sub-transactions for which it is Alex> responsible. If all...
Sorry, I meant to say "build a RESTful Web Services on top of SOAP". Hao ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster....
I'll take a crack at this if Roy isn't going to, because there's a good question that's really about software architecture in general that I've given a fair...
... Softtouch> Agree. Does the SOAP head do better than name/value Softtouch> pairs? Also, embedding another XML into SOAP body seems Softtouch> awkward as...
... Bunches. ... Even if it is done carefully, access control does negate some goals of REST (shared caching in particular). However, it doesn't negate the...
I am swamped trying to finish the URI revision... I'll just add that one thing we want out of an architecture is the ability to adapt to, or be adapted by,...
Hello All, If you start doing URL rewriting you can make URLs that cannot exist in a file system. For example I can say that: /authors returns a list of...
The context of this discussion was whether SOAP is superior to REST-HTTP because it specifies ACID/MQ services. My point is that if we put in a little work we...
... i think this is more generally about relative URIs, which are interpreted relative to a base URI (that of the request). much like a relative and absolute...
Which would be the best way to ensure cachability of a resource where a limited set of individuals require access, but cannot share a common URI. 1) Assign a...
... If a resource is subject to access control, representations must be transferred over an encrypted communications channel, such as is provided by HTTPS. If...
Digest authentication doesn't require SSL to maintain privacy of the authenticator. Seairth, I'm a bit confused about your requirements. You say that they ...
... If you send the resource representation in plaintext, you are effectively delegating access to the resource to everyone else on your network path. This...
... You may also want to take a look at this post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-explore/message/407 In this case, there is no sense in using digest...
... Perhaps rather than saying "access to the resource" it would be better to say "access to a representation of the resource". For example, if the resource is...
Michael Day
mikeday@...
May 11, 2003 12:35 am
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... No, you could be said to be delegating access to the representation, but not the resource; whilst the representation is available to anyone who is able to...
... In this case, access to a representation of the resource is equivalent to access to the resource. We know this because Seairth is specifically asking about...