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Re: REST has too many verbs

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• Subject: Re: REST has too many verbs
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:01:19 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3C68021A.98D28BF1@p...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
• References: <1013451210.845.127.camel@l...> <3C68021A.98D28BF1@p...>

> If you do that, you make it extremely difficult to build
> intermediaries like:
>
>  * store-and-forward services
>  * caches
>  * firewalls
>  * proxies
>  * message routers
>  * privacy managing intermediaries

This is not strictly true. 

I don't think you can assume that visibility is always a good 
thing.... and I would say that in many cases, HTTP 1.1 proxies have 
too much visibility, especially from a security perspective.... the 
classic "man in the middle attack" can be made fairly easily unless 
you're using SSL etc.

I think disclosure/visibilitycan be an archilles heel...

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