[uf-rest] Don Box on Hi-REST vs. Lo-REST

[Dimitri Glazkov]

I think Don's definition of Lo-Rest is, hmm.. to Lo' :)

He doesn't specify anything about requests being stateless, idempotent
(woo, big word!), and just about any significant rules of REST.

I posted a comment on the post along these lines.

:DG<

On 3/19/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
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> I thought this was a very useful distinction.  I find myself (as a
> pragmatist) more drawn to Lo-REST, but I do feel guilty about not using
> Hi-REST.  At least now I have a name for what I feel guilty about. ;-)
>
> -- Ernie P.
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> http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=473cc14f-4668-43cf-b5b9-0178f9271296
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> http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2006/03/18/20235.aspx
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> To get a more accurate picture of what we've done so far, I'll break this
> category in two: Lo-Rest, which is the use of HTTP GET (or equiv) for
> information retrieval/query, and Hi-Rest, which is characterized by the use
> of HTTP PUT and DELETE (or equiv) for doing update.
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