Hi Matthias, I fully agree with your description. POP3 and SMTP are also stateful protocols.
Best regards, Jerome -----Message d'origine----- De : Matthias Wauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 27 mai 2008 23:17 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : RE: PUT and entity Jerome Louvel schrieb: > ... and I can see how to can be extended to FTP and many other ones. Of course the quality of the mapping depends on the type of protocol/scheme, for example whether or not it is stateless. > Just to make that clear, FTP is _not_ a stateless protocol. As Richardson and Ruby have pointed out in their RESTful Web Services book, it is absolutely stateful. However, the specific use case of retrieving files using the ftp:// URI scheme can be considered stateless. I know it's nitpicking, but worth to mention anyway I think. Btw, thanks for the details on 204, good to know. Have a good night, Matthias
