Hi Mark, this is a comment onthe section "Form" and "method" of http://www.markbaker.ca/2003/05/RDF-Forms/ You present the RDF below as an alternative to the...
FWIW, the first instantiation of this concept (in general, at least) that I'm aware of was from PEP, specifically the "Accept-Protocol" HTTP header; ...
So, I have a couple of questions. I work on middleware at IBM. Suppose I used REST as my protocol for accessing data stored in a database. On the surface,...
... This isn't really nitpicking, honest: REST is an architectural style. HTTP is an application protocol. Good HTTP apps are usually RESTful. Most of your...
... Simply build an API that supports that. There's no reason why you can't POST multiple datums at once. But you don't have to do that, see below. ... Build a...
... I don't know, one of the advantages of REST with HTTP was compatibility with HTTP security like web seal etc. Your suggestion above hides the records in ...
... REST describes interactions with resources - define your resources to encompass the multiple entities you want to update. ... You'd use an identifier like...
... well use SOAP, no? It's your application design choice as to whether 'record keys' are the same as 'resource identifiers' - a resource might encompass more...
... I think that the primary cause of your confusion is trying to map CRUD to PGPD (Post, Get, Put, Delete). This is not necessarily so; POST can create,...
... There isn't normally much caching with POST. I can't see why the above stops you doing security. ... Absolutely. It's also just easier to do. Making a SOAP...
Hi, ... Maybe you can think of client A is trying to interact with a record retrieval service. That service is a resource, thus it has a URL address. When...
... You define a content format for updates so clients can send the update records to the server. This is what RSS/Atom provides for /fetching/ multiple...
... Bill -- I'm trying to tie a few ideas together. Is the other best bet also to use the Atom Publishing Protocol? How does this fit in with something like...
I have to modify an existing system so it can scale and I would like a REST perspective on it. I understand that using a scalable clusterable J2EE framework...
... Instead have the server response with a status 302 - Found and set the Location header to be another server. ... From: rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com...
I had a thought: Could the microformat process be applied to URIs as well as markup? For example, the URI example.com/tag tends to be a collection of tags: ...
If you mean standardizing on URI structure, that's actually counter to REST's hypermedia application model constraint. The RESTful approach would be to...
... I think content neg could contribute to solving this; eg: for robots.txt: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: someplace.com Accept: robot/robot I think that would work...
Hello All, There has been a lot of discussion in the past about how to do pure HTTP authentication without cookies. I've seen one solution posted to this list,...
... I think that the argument against this is that the robots.txt file or p3p policy, and the home page of the site are really very different resources. What...
... In fairness the latter example is one of many alternatives, and always seemed to me to be a mechanism made available due to the fact that some people would...
... Sure... but content neg can handle that as well. The point is a request for meta data can be made using content neg: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: someplace.com ...
Thanks a lot for the thoughts people. There is a few things that I want to respond to. Thanks David for pointing out that not every domain name is necessarily...
Hi Jonathan, Is a cowpie the opposite of a cowpath? If so, then I think the 'Opaque URI' meme qualifies as one, and you just stepped in it. :-) Here's what...
... Er, not quite. The key is that the server is free to tell the client that there does exist structure in a given URI-space, and then the client is free to...
... Noooooo Standardizing URIs is bad because of all sorts of issues: - presentation - i18n - accepted meaning - cultural politics ... These are *NOT* standard...
... It's the "hypermedia as the engine of application state" constraint, AIUI; http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_2 ...
Jonathan, ... I think it greatly clarifies the essentials of REST if you think in terms of changes to be made to clients when the resource implementations...
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