REST reading progress

December 13th, 2002

I've been scanning the REST paper quickly. From what I've seen so far, this is REST in a nutshell:
  • everything is a URL, and
  • everything is stateless.
This is
  1. one guy's wet dream of the Web, and
  2. the goal I (and many other web application developers, I suppose) have been prosecuting for several years now. Yes, you probably too. Have you ever said "I don't like sessions. Sessions are bad. Sessions expire." ? Then you're supposedly a REST-guru without you knowing it :-)
That said, I know that this is a hard goal to reach ("Put the object in the session, it's soooo easy!" - "Yeah, you're right, there's a deadline coming up.") and I'm curious if the paper will reveil magic solutions for this. Object of the next 5 minutes of time.
Posted by tomklaasen Filed in General

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