- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:35:27 -0600
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:29, Mark Baker wrote: > Greetings, > > >From the Jan 27 TAG teleconf minutes; > > DC: I suggest describing GET/PUT/POST in a para each, then say > > "if your app looks like that, use HTTP". > > If I could make a friendly suggestion ... > > That position - that if you've got hypertext, you use should use HTTP - Er... that's not the position I was describing; it's quite the opposite, in fact. GET/PUT/POST works on lots of stuff besides hypertext. > while entirely accurate, in my experience, doesn't provide very much > guidance to those trying to decide what architecture to use. > > For example, many Web services proponents frequently (and accurately!!), > claim that they don't have any hypertext, and so therefore don't need to > "use HTTP" (i.e. use things like URIs and GET). > > So I suggest that a position such as "if your app can *reasonably* be > made to look like that, use HTTP", would be superior from that > perspective. Yup. > Thanks. > > MB -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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