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Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call forParticipation

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call forParticipation
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:07:24 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0401061933080.11359-100000@s...>
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At 8:51 PM -0500 1/6/04, Rich Salz wrote:

>Those sites are scalable only because SSL does what REST doesn't
>allow:  it maintains a cache of state (session key) between client
>and server.  Without that shared state, SSL is too expensive and
>impractical, as it requires a public-key operation on the server
>for every connection, and good random bits from the client.

Just to be clear, REST has no objection to running over SSL. REST 
defines a use pattern for application layer protocols. It is 
transport layer agnostic.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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