On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:

> But from all the blog chatter out there, I got the impression that GET was
> some kind or REST requirement.
>

For retrieving resources, sure. If you're seeing examples of adding
resources via get, that's not really REST.


>
> Either I'm crafting my search strings badly, or there's not a lot of
> non-GET examples out there. Perhaps just because that's the easiest way to
> test or demo...
>

Which would be unfortunate because it would give people a very wrong
impression about how this stuff is supposed to work.

Honestly if you want to get a good sense of how REST works, I'd read
Fielding's dissertation (
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm), or check out
any major web property's REST APIs.

Is CFML-specific stuff something that's needed? I've been doing a lot of
work with CouchDB lately (which is built for the most part on a RESTful API)
so if that'd be helpful I could blog something.

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