Re: Asynchronous callbacks + www-ws

> Mark,
> 
> I'm probably missing something here: the technique being discussed in the
> message you refer to seems to me to be applicable if one resource (reachable
> through a URL) is subscribing to messages from another resource (also
> reachable through a URL). Is this correct?

Yes, that's right.

> What if the subscriber is an
> application -- is there some way to make this technique work in that case?

Sure, no problem.  Just have the app publish a URI through CGI or a servlet
or whatever.  Think of it as a mailbox to which event notifications can be
POSTed, not dissimilar from a URI used for HTML form submission.

MB
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Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
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Received on Friday, 25 January 2002 16:15:56 UTC