Re: "hypertext"

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:35:12AM -0700, Francis McCabe wrote:
> And this presupposes that there are three verbs in the universe: get, put 
> and delete;-)

Actually, no.  Any method that is generic to all resources/objects is
fine.

> But more seriously, I certainly understand this as characterizing the 
> hypertext view.

Great!

> And the above remark (I hope) illustrates the fundamental 
> problem)

There's no problem.  Name a task that cannot be coordinated using only
generic methods.  Heck, name a task that cannot be coordinated using
GET and POST.

MB
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Received on Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:43:56 UTC