[uf-discuss] "Casual Web Services" and Well Designed Urls[uf-rest]

[Mike Schinkel]

Etan:

I greatly appreciate your comments.  However, may I ask you to rephrase them
in less technical language? After reading your email and those sections of
Roy's paper I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to communicate to
me.  Roy's paper is written in such abstract language that I am unable to
see the issues you bring up.  Maybe some examples would help?

Thanks in advance for clarifying it.

-Mike Schinkel
http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog
http://www.welldesignedurls.org/


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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Etan
Wexler
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 3:57 AM
To: Microformats Discuss; Microformats REST
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] "Casual Web Services" and Well Designed
Urls[uf-rest]

Mike Schinkel wrote to Microformats Discuss:

> Since the URL structure of a REST-based web services typically becomes 
> an important part of the API, HTML web pages will need Well Designed 
> Urls in order to operate effectively as REST-based web services.

REST does not permit programmatic construction of URIs in which the
construction uses of out-of-band knowledge and bits of data. Read sections
5.1.5 ("Uniform Interface",
<http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_
5_1_5>) 

and 5.2.1 ("Data Elements",
<http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_
5_2_1>) 

of "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software
Architectures". Particularly, REST relies on hypermedia as the engine of
application state, while constructing URIs violates this constraint.

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