Ah, I had neglected to consider people using that field outside of the Restlet modules.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Rob Heittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Repeating, it's important on the server side. I have a lot of code that > depends on examining this. This way the code does not have to explicitly > check stuff like ( protocol.equals(Protocol.HTTPS) || > protocol.equals(Protocol.RIAP) || ... ) and possibly leave out a > confidential communication protocol/pseudoprotocol that the check code is > not aware of. It can simply check this property and behave properly (e.g. > throw an exception or return forbidden status) if a request that is supposed > to be confidential isn't. There is an analogue in the Servlet world that is > used similarly. > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Kevin Conaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Is the confidential property on the Request (or Message) even necessary? >> It seems to only be read by the jaxrs module and it doesn't appear to be >> providing much value there. > > >
