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It seems to me like cookies are are regarded as something to be avoided (and undoubtedly they are usually misused), but aren't there RESTful uses of cookies...
pkeane
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Dec 1, 2007
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... You're breaking REST then. One fundamental principle is that the URI identifies the resource, nothing else. Addressing and authentication are two separate...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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... Actually, the URI DOES identify the resource and nothing else. It's the cookie (to be used only in the XHR 'personalizing" request) that handles identity...
pkeane
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... There's a fuzzy issue here of just what exactly constitutes a resource. There's a line beyond which sufficient client personalization has created a new...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Dec 2, 2007
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... I think the potential for abuse has in some cases triggered a knee-jerk "All cookies are evil!" reaction, but yeah. As long as they don't replace things...
Karen
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Dec 2, 2007
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... But I'd suggest that it's a resource that the server need not know anything about. For one thing, it won't be of any use to anyone but this particular...
pkeane
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... I suspect that we will see more and more pages that are "composed" of various services accessed by a page asynchronously (usually w/ XHR) and although my ...
pkeane
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... Agreed to the extent that the client needs to manage those compound objects (i.e. new resources), but needing to assign them a URI, I'm not convinced. I...
pkeane
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if this is about how to determine the currently authenticated user while still staying close the REST constraints, it seems trivial to create a resource that...
mike amundsen
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Dec 2, 2007
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... This presuposes that the request to /user/current/ will run into a "hark-who-goes-there" WWW-Authenticate response, right? And that the browser's Auth...
pkeane
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... However, now you've created a system where users cannot pass a bookmark to someone else. JoAnn.com, a pretty major player in the sewing/craft industry,...
Karen
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Dec 2, 2007
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two things: peter: i was thinking that the /user/current/ request would *not* return a 401. this could be a public resource that returns the auth'ed user *or*...
mike amundsen
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Dec 2, 2007
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... But in the scenario described, the original URL still works after being passed to someone else. This new user simply sees a non-personalized site and will...
pkeane
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Dec 2, 2007
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... Oh yes, of course -- my mistake. The server has access to the currently logged in user (in php by way of the $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']). I had forgotten...
pkeane
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Dec 2, 2007
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... Not the bits that are things like /users/{userid}/preferences, though. ... Right. I guess the problem really lies in the general pages with ...
Karen
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Dec 2, 2007
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On 12/2/07, Karen <karen.cravens@...> wrote: <snip> I have been known to manually ... </snip> LOL! <snip> Say you're displaying a thread. If it's a...
mike amundsen
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Dec 2, 2007
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... There's a thread going now ("are cookies EVER restful") that seems to be settling on HTTP auth as a good alternative to cookies for remembering the logged...
pkeane
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Dec 2, 2007
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... pkeane> There's a thread going now ("are cookies EVER restful") that pkeane> seems to be settling on HTTP auth as a good alternative to pkeane> cookies for...
Berend de Boer
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Dec 2, 2007
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... That's the solution I've leaned toward, other than the issue of dumb clients (e.g. browsers without JavaScript). ... Like a newsreader's newsrc file, you...
Karen
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Dec 2, 2007
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karen: without thinking through all the details it seems that, if you want to support 'dumb' (read:non-scripted) clients, you are bound to build all the state...
mike amundsen
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Dec 3, 2007
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... Not to me. Without control of the clients, I would never mandate Javascript for a function as vital as logging out. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //...
A. Pagaltzis
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Dec 3, 2007
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... I was thinking more along the lines of http auth as as better option than cookies as a way to "remember" the user across requests w/o embedding a user-id...
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... pkeane> I was thinking more along the lines of http auth as as pkeane> better option than cookies as a way to "remember" the user pkeane> across requests...
Berend de Boer
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Dec 3, 2007
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... I guess I'm going to break RESTfulness in that case, because I'm not seeing a benefit to uniqueness at that point, and I *am* seeing drawbacks (inability...
Karen
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Dec 4, 2007
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Hello, I was hoping to use XHTML as a representation format for all the great reasons I read about in Richardson and Ruby's book, but I have a question: Lots...
Miles Crawford
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Dec 5, 2007
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As a point of RESTful design, you should try to avoid formats which aren't internet standards. If that's not feasible in this case, which is totally possible,...
Lucas Gonze
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Dec 5, 2007
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Miles, Most of the XML tools and technologies I've worked with automatically handle escaping and unescaping. For example, if you set the content of a ...
Kevin Christen
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Dec 5, 2007
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Could you use an HTTP Link: header (http://esw.w3.org/topic/LinkHeader) to get the WADL if you have the URI of the resource? For example: Link: meta.wadl;...
John Kemp
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Dec 5, 2007
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Is that header still valid? I can't seem to find much info about it anywhere. - Griffin...
Griffin Caprio
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Dec 6, 2007
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... It seems to be under discussion in the IETF HTTP WG - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2007OctDec/thread.html#msg46 Regards, - John...
John Kemp
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