On 8 Mar 2009, at 18:05, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rest+non+idempotent+POST+to+a+collection&l=1
and more here:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rest+non+idempotent+POST+to+a+collection
Haha. lmgtfy.com is really cute, and I've bookmarked it to use
against annoying Help-Vampires on some other mailing lists I'm on,
but in this case particular case it was pretty useless — it took me
to an IBM page on "Implementing REST services with WebSphere" which
looks like a basic intro to REST, with no mention of the POST
problems being discussed here. Down around the fourth hit I found
"Double POST and POE" which seems relevant; it would have saved me a
couple of minutes had you just linked directly to that.
Morals:
• A search query is a really fragile thing to link to, given how
frequently Google updates its index.
• Don't point people to a "fuck-you" site like lmgtfy.com unless
they're asking about something sufficiently obvious that the search
query is a no-fail.
In hindsight my reply seems childish and not productive at all.
My apologies.
—Jens
PS: Anyone got a link to the specific CFNetwork bug? I used to work
with the CFNetwork and Safari teams, and I don't remember this
coming up.
http://osdir.com/ml/db.couchdb.devel/2008-07/msg00127.html
I might be wrong in asserting that system-level HTTP is handled by
CFNetwork or some other framework or by Safari, but I think I remember
it being that way.
Cheers
Jan
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