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On Jan 6, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
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> Have you tried the REST version of the amazon web services? I suspect
> that handles the secure, scalable, and automatable requirements. It
> falls down on the human requirements, and I don't think it allows you
> to order, just query.
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No, I really should play with the alternative Amazon interfaces!
I should have been more explicit: Obviously there are millions of
RESTful websites out there that are essentially GET-only. It's the
ordering, or in general the multi-step, intrinsically stateful
(wherever the state is kept!) interactions with a website that are more
controversial from an architectural point of view. I'm totally with
the RESTifarians that when an approach based on GET is possible, it is
usually the Right Thing. My skepticism is over whether REST is the
Right Thing when a site is more transactional, such as ordering on
Amazon. I recognize that one could in principle build a RESTful
equivalent to Amazon.com, but I wonder if it would be a) secure, b)
usable by ordinary consumers, and c) buildable by ordinary programmers.
It would be great to see examples of RESTifarianistically correct
stores or whatever so that we can evaluate these things more
concretely. As we know all too well, the only real test of a site's
security is its ability to withstand real hackers.
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