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

[Dimitri Glazkov]

Oh, and I am also still struggling to answer whether just wearing
dreadlocks makes you a rastafarian. And if not, how are you different
from anybody else with bad hair?

:DG<

On 3/20/06, Dimitri Glazkov <dimitri.glazkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=473cc14f-4668-43cf-b5b9-0178f9271296
> >
> > http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2006/03/18/20235.aspx
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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