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I think WebDAV was specifically mentioned in the Fielding dissertation about REST, as being a rest-ian thing. He says that the resource retrieved by HTTP is never the actual resource, but instead is a mediated view, but he goes to pains to point out that a mediated view comes from a base resource and should in most cases be modifiable. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:59 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: REST and HTTP extensions (was Re: Re: Why > REST? ) > > One thing that doesn't seem to have come up in this mega-thread is how > REST relates to > things like WebDAV (which adds a few more verbs to HTTP to make > collections of resources, > lock and unlock resources, add metadata to a resource, copy and move > resources between > collections). Also, what about things like the tuple-space TAKE operator > (sortof a LOCK, > GET, DELETE transaction)? > > I can see how to model these with REST, i.e.,a series of GET, POST, DELETE > operations and > some logic to test for the existence of lock resources or metadata. But > does bundling > these into sequences of operations that are performed as a transaction > violate REST, or > merely extend HTTP? > > Sorry if this is a painfully stupid question ... > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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