Re: [PHP] HTTP methods, Web Browsers and REST

2007-08-14 Thread Chris
Looking over PHP i can see a web service client could be written for a RESTful web service using the curl extension (and perhaps others as well) because it facilitates an ability to invoke the HTTP PUT and DELETE methods. Now, coming to my question.. Looking at the W3C page on the XHTML 1.0

Re: [PHP] HTTP methods, Web Browsers and REST

2007-08-14 Thread Nathan Nobbe
Chris, thanks for your reply it sounds like apache does allow the use of a script to handle PUT requests In fact, Apache handles PUT exactly like it handles the POST method. That is, it supports it, but in order for it to do anything useful you need to supply a suitable CGI program. getting

Re: [PHP] HTTP methods, Web Browsers and REST

2007-08-14 Thread Chris
Nathan Nobbe wrote: Chris, thanks for your reply it sounds like apache does allow the use of a script to handle PUT requests If you install the module, yes. from the sound of it; PUT and DELETE wont work well when using a browser to interact w/ a server, it seems like they are mostly

Re: [PHP] HTTP methods, Web Browsers and REST

2007-08-14 Thread Nathan Nobbe
im imagining a system using the REST paradigm where a web browser is the client. rather than a REST paradigm simply for web services. -nathan On 8/14/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Nobbe wrote: Chris, thanks for your reply it sounds like apache does allow the use of a

[PHP] HTTP methods, Web Browsers and REST

2007-08-09 Thread Nathan Nobbe
all, some time ago i read about RESThttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer . at first i thought for web services SOAP is much better for the self describing feature of the WSDL. then, reading through the Zend certification preparation book, there was a section on using POST