Julian Reschke wrote: [...] ... Does anyone happen to know why the functionality of PROPFIND has not simply been enabled by the definition of a set of...
... Extensibility of header names? Internationalization considerations? Namespace operations? Updates of properties? Anyway, this: "WebDAV and the Birth of...
... Yeah, Yaron's twisted little view of history. It would be more accurate to say that some people insisted HTTP could not carry internationalized data in ...
... OK, another interesting read is in Jim Whitehead's and Yaron Goland's "The WebDAV Property Design" "<http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~ejw/papers/spe-whitehead.pdf>....
Ok, I haven't made it through the original disertation -- but I've gone through some of the posts here -- and read up on the wiki -- I think I grok the basics...
... Do it! And do it with passion :o) It takes time because it is dense (==value in every sentence), but it pays off very well. ... No, that'snot true....
The Web is *the* "real REST app". REST is a description of the principles that made the Web architecture so successful, and guidelines for keeping it that way....
The place that I have found REST most interesting, is in assembiling content from many web source using client side XSL processing, here is a snip that uses...
... perhaps I'm giving the REpresentational State Transfer theory too much credit -- the "current" http-server/http-client model for doing a "GET" -- follow...
... Hmm...I don't understand what you are up to here. What do you mean by 'talk to distributed resources'? ... Besides the question wheather your address book...
... In addition, it would be interesting to show that/how REST reduces the need to know about the specific semantics of the interaction up front. That is: how...
... Autsch....forgot about JS's security issue: no cross site scripting..... Seems one needs a server-based app for that sort of integration. Jan -- Jan...
... [ to which I added - to do a good RESTful apps we may need a better client platform ] ... the premise behind all the REST discussions revolve around ...
... I'd like to see that as well -- I just am not sure how that would work. ... that's the part I'm still missing -- if I talk to an "address" resource and an...
... The trick is that you model interactions differently in a RESTful design. You have to learn to collapse the state into a single URI which expresses ...
I've always liked the REST approach over SOAP (have used both), but I've had an issue with REST when developing new applications. That is, if you use...
... I'm usually testing (my WebDAV server code) with non-interactive clients, but if you need to, you can use *any* method name through client-side scripting...
... Mostly through standardisation of the message type (MIME type). When you use RDF, you enter the wonderful world of partial understanding: Although a user...
... For any non-trivial web application you're likely to want some kind of automated testing anyway, and once you're going down this route browser limitations...
I use the Mozilla Firefox LiveHTTPHeaders extention http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ which allows you to craft your own HTTP request for Firefox to send. I...
Nobody asked me, but I want to throw out one simple observation in the question over the relative value of an architecture based on uniform semantics and URIs...
I think you're looking too hard, Hugh. Without getting into the "semantics" thing, the value in REST - and in Internet scale styles in general - derives from...
Please let me know if I need to redirect this question to a different group. I am implementing what I believe to be a REST-compliant servlet. I am also writing...
Hi Terry, You can probably kill two birds with one stone here. If your client's request contains multipart/form-data in the entity body then all of the data...
... You probably should use 'application/xml' - I vaguely remember that 'text/xml' was frowned upon and is not to be used. ... Do you want to supply name/value...
... You might want to consider using the Apache commons-httpClient library instead of the native Java http methods. Much cleaner, nicer, easier. But to answer...
I've been thinking about REST for some time now, with an idea that I still think is reasonable. Since I've very little experience with http, I'd like to try ...
... It sounds like you want to do message-queueing or blackboarding, incidentally with an HTTP interface. It makes a lot of sense; MQ systems can be quite...
... It makes plenty of sense. For a robust, real world implementation see the PSB (Public Services Broker) project from the Irish government (a good starting...
