> Can't you do that using HTTP redirects? > > Client requests /permalink/FOO, and a servlet mounted at /permalink > does an HTTP redirects to the actual resource, using whatever > mechanism is appropriate based on the semantics of FOO.
Do redirects also work when doing a POST? We would like to post to such a URL as well. Clients are not only browsers but also other systems. We'd like to keep the handling as simple as possible (therefore the externalid support). Markus
