13.06.2006 21:42 A. Pagaltzis:
> * Gert Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-13 12:35]:
>> I would like some ideas on how todo the following in cat.
>
> In general, the web way is to make as much state as possible
> explicit in the URI. Avoid the use of sessions and cookies
> wherever possible, try your darndest to use information from the
> URI instead. (Also make sure to return appropriate HTTP status
> codes when handling arbitrary URIs, instead of just saying 200 OK
> to everything.)
Why would you *want* to avoid sessions?
It's much easier to manage sessions than complicated URI conventions.
This blog post by Avi Bryant describes it very well imo.
http://smallthought.com/avi/?p=14
"There are 3 models:
Need quick response, but don't need back button or bookmark:
Ajax
Need back button, don't need bookmark: Continuation/Callback
Need bookmarking or other external access: REST"
> Whether you put the information in the URI into the query string
> or into the path is not that important in terms of webarch; the
> main advantage of using the path part is simply that it looks
> prettier.
But why would a multi page wizard or ajax requests to have
bookmarkable URIs?
--
Sebastian
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