Re: How do you POST to a "document"? from Roy T. Fielding on 2003-01-24 (www-tag@w3.org from January 2003)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:46:19 -0800
To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <40C51B0F-2F35-11D7-BFE5-000393753936@apache.org>

> When I think of the web in terms of processes and communiction channels
> I'm quite definitely not thinking in terms of abstract entites with the
> characterisitics you claim for resources. Where you see states and
> names I see flows and processing.

Umm, REST is a model of flows and processing.  We are talking about
identification, which is only one part of that model.  Of course, if
you aren't talking about identification then there can't be any
disagreement over the definition of resource.

....Roy

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