Re: Few questions about REST

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:38:18AM -0400, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > You're missing the point.  POST doesn't mean "retrieve", and if you
> > use it for that, nobody knows you're doing so, and you're therefore not
> > using late-binding.  If you want to use POST RESTfully, your only option
> > is to tunnel GET via POST as I just described  </snip>
> 
> Do you mean something like
> http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/DifferentlyAbledClients ?
> As far as doc-lit SOAP is concerned, this approach can make those doc-lit
> SOAP requests which use POST but mean GET RESTful enough, at least
> technically.
> 
> Do you agree ?

Almost exactly.  I made some comments on that Wiki page to Sam last
week;

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/3978

Mark.

Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:22:10 UTC