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Someone somewhere knows what the URI identifies and
has to tell you.
"A closed world problem is one where you know all of the users, you can share
a data model with them, and you can all communicate directly as to your needs."
get(myName, "you know my name; lookup the number")
ain't that brilliant. Seems to me that if all you
want is that, you don't want web services; you want
a telephone operator with a local exchange so you
can call and ask for a service from a global exchange
and hope the locals don't put you on hold or lose
the context of the request. Otherwise, how would
you comparison shop? (Progressive customers expect
comparison pricing...).
It wasn't brilliance; it was the persuasion required to
get anyone to accept a uniform namespace for one
application sitting a top a transport system, and
the arrogance to suggest that it is the only
application worth considering.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
There are many application protocols that retrieve stuff; FTP, IMAP,
NNTP, SMTP (VRFY & EXPN, for example). To generalize those into "GET",
plus a URI to identify what is being "gotten", was a stroke of
brilliance.
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