* Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-29 14:16]: > I had thought about the HTTP/1.1 methods. However, I was only > concerned with the request methods used for creating RESTful > protocols.
That is an oxymoron. Please don’t take this in offense, but you don’t seem to have understood what REST is about. :-) The point of REST is that you (conceptually) manipulate resources instead of calling methods on remote objects. Resources are identified by URIs, which are equivalent to nouns. The manipulation is identified by the method, which is equivalent to the verb. The point is that resources are declarative; methods are imperative. Declarative systems are easy to scale and reason about. Anyway, getting into the whole subject would take us way too far afield here. The essence is that being able to use new verbs when you really do need a new way of manipulating arbitrary resources is a central notion in REST. (Ack. I don’t know how to satisfactorily summarise the subject in short. Which just means, of course, that as much understanding as I may have, it is haphazard and incoherent. Need more study…) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
