... Thanks. Reading those specs correctly is so tricky... ... That's what I was enivisoning since they are so closely related. ... I'm curious; could...
7373
Julian Reschke
JulianReschke
Jan 2, 2007 5:19 pm
... But that is only the case when you have a server with autoversioning. PUT on a RFC3744-versioncontrolled resource is idempotent unless you do ...
7374
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 5:33 pm
... Can't you just use mod_rewrite for that? (Are you familiar with using mod_rewrite?) -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ ...
7375
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 5:35 pm
... I'm curious why you make the above statement. Is there a W3C finding that documents this, or some other paper? I've been doing a significant amount of...
7376
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 5:53 pm
... No, that's not reality. The internal admins configuring the firewall in many places are clueless (believe me, I ran a business for a while where that was...
7377
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 5:58 pm
... (and OPTIONS and HEAD too I guess). Just for my edification, what does "AHAH" stand for? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ ...
7378
Stelios Eliakis
asoee20022003
Jan 2, 2007 6:03 pm
I have never heard mod_rewrite :) Is something trivial? Difficult? Can you give me any tip? Thanks ... -- Stelios Eliakis...
7379
Chase Urich
q4radioguy
Jan 2, 2007 6:08 pm
... Just drop these lines in an .htaccess file at at, for example, /myserver/. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /base/url/for/rewriting RewriteCond...
7380
Alan Dean
alan_james_dean
Jan 2, 2007 6:11 pm
... See my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/alan.dean/ahah...
7381
Alan Dean
alan_james_dean
Jan 2, 2007 6:15 pm
... http://www.google.com/search?q=mod_rewrite...
7382
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 6:19 pm
... Not hard, if you know regular expressions. If not, beware. ;-) Well, I wrote an writeup about clean URLs for Mediawiki using mod_rewrite[1]. But just...
7383
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 2, 2007 6:50 pm
... <http://del.icio.us/alan.dean/ahah> Thanks. Jeesh, another acronym/meme! And to this I thought that AHA was just called POX! [1] -- -Mike Schinkel ...
7384
Hugh Winkler
hwinkler99
Jan 2, 2007 6:59 pm
... That's the problem --- "ahead of time" rather than dynamically at run time. ... Not sure how you would know it understands a useful subset. You won't have...
7385
Roy T. Fielding
roy_fielding
Jan 2, 2007 8:03 pm
... A URI generator should percent-encode reserved characters when they are not being used as delimiters, so that other layers that do use them as delimiters...
7386
Roy T. Fielding
roy_fielding
Jan 2, 2007 9:15 pm
... It is inherent in the power laws of economics, the network effect of Metcalfe, the PageRank of Google, and I am sure it is mentioned somewhere in webarch....
7387
Roy T. Fielding
roy_fielding
Jan 2, 2007 9:24 pm
... *sigh* Just ignore the definition of idempotent in RFC 2616. Anything specified in HTTP that defines how the server shall implement the semantics of an...
7388
John Panzer
zwyrthrop
Jan 2, 2007 9:48 pm
Mike, Thanks for your comments. A couple of followup questions for the list: ... The application ID is actually a separate thing from the user ID and is more...
7389
Nic James Ferrier
nferrier_tap...
Jan 2, 2007 10:21 pm
... I can see where you're coming from but I can't fully agree. RESTfull authentication is possible (I'm doing it... my app will be announced here this week!) ...
7390
Walden Mathews
waldenmathews
Jan 2, 2007 11:46 pm
In 2616*, I interpret "side effects" to mean resource state changes, as opposed to values returned in the response. I think Chris is interpreting "side...
7391
Elliotte Harold
elharo@...
Jan 3, 2007 12:09 am
... The market will deal with businesses like that. I don;t see why genuinely competent organizations should have to put up with bad architectures to support...
7392
Mark Baker
gonga_thrash
Jan 3, 2007 12:42 am
I think the answer you're looking for is found in the explanation often given about GET and side-effects; that the client didn't request them and so can't be...
7393
Roy T. Fielding
roy_fielding
Jan 3, 2007 1:47 am
... Yes, that's it. We have to keep dancing around that bush because terminology is a committee-driven process. Everyone has an opinion and so no opinion is...
7394
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 3, 2007 2:12 am
... Interesting. Hmmm. I'm going to have to mull on that one a bit. Is it a being used as a delimiter because it denotes a special class of URLs? That would...
7395
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 3, 2007 2:23 am
... Can you please address the usability issue I raised? You addressed the technical issues, but not the usability issues. Wouldn't this argue for additional...
7396
Mike Schinkel
mikeschinkel
Jan 3, 2007 3:56 am
... WHOA! I opened it and went to click your "Print Page" and up popped THE MOST AWESOME print dialog I have EVER SEEN on any website, and I print a lot....
7397
S. Mike Dierken
mdierken
Jan 3, 2007 4:59 am
... more parallel to User-Agent. ... Authorization: header, no? Yes, credentials go in the Authorization header. I'm not sure have distince user-agent values...
7398
S. Mike Dierken
mdierken
Jan 3, 2007 5:08 am
I think that authenticating a client application isn't the hard problem here - I think it's the end-user authorizing that particular application to muck about...
7399
S. Mike Dierken
mdierken
Jan 3, 2007 5:26 am
... You probably should mention that REST does not mean "HTTP" and mention why you chose to talk about HTTP (like, it display many of the characteristics ...
7400
John Panzer
zwyrthrop
Jan 3, 2007 6:46 am
... This is equivalent to giving control over both authentication and authorization to third parties; we'd have to establish a trust relationship, and likely a...
7401
Benjamin Carlyle
fuzzybsc
Jan 3, 2007 10:50 am
... They aren't the same resource. They are three different resources that demarcate the same state :) In practice you will want a "permalink" that can be...
