> This reminds me of the folks who built RPC systems by setting properties > on the root window of a specified X Window System server. It was the > only piece of software they had that was reasonably well implemented... I don't understand this. HTTP was designed to support this type of coarse grained interaction style that involves transferring representations of resources around the network. In my thermostat example, I was using it *exactly* as it was designed to be used. There is simply no comparison to that hack job you described. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.comReceived on Friday, 14 December 2001 14:05:12 GMT
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