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Moberg Dale wrote: > Simon St Laurent comments: > That's RESTful? For what definition of REST? > > Moberg Dale continues in reply: > > I will ignore the bait about "definitions". I can only point out that in > the REST vs. XMLP wars, REST advocates defended the MTTP methods (POST, > PUT, GET and the like) as indicating ("properly") the RESTful operations > on the resource indicated in the HTTP command line. In WEBDAV we find > HTTP extended, for example, by > > PROPFIND /file HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.foo.bar > Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" > Content-Length: xxxx > > That is, new HTTP methods were introduced. The introduction of new HTTP > methods was discussed in this thread previously. What definition was at > work for those who introduced those points into the discussion? I guess I don't find adding verbs to be a plus for an architecture whose core strength is the deliberate decision to restrict the number of verbs. REST is kind of HTTP--, not HTTP++. > Anyway, some sort of WEBDAV lite seems to be what is being envisioned. I > was just wondering about why reinvention was of interest. I remain > unclear why you want to reinvent, but I am not discouraging you. I guess WebDAV looks a lot to me like the recently proposed PATCH. I don't think adding a huge pile of verbs is the right answer to a problem that consists primarily of needing to identify nouns more preciesely. Thanks, Simon St.Laurent Retired XML troublemaker
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