Re: A REST challenge

Mark Baker wrote,
> Francis McCabe wrote:
> > In addition you need two user
> > agents.  However, you now have a massive coordination and identity
> > problem since, at the level of business relationships, the web
> > service/user agent pairs are implementation artifacts that obscure
> > the fact that there is a single entity behind each.
>
> How so?  One could certainly implement it to give themselves these
> problems, but the architecture doesn't require it.

The identity issue crops up at your first step,

> An order document is transferred over POST, which includes a URI to
> which further correspondance should be sent.

What's to guarantee that the callback URI mentioned in the POST'ed 
document really corresponds to the POST'er?

In fairness, tho', I don't see that this is any less of a problem for 
non-RESTful bindings of SOAP to HTTP.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2002 14:28:46 UTC