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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:16:20PM -0500, Michael Champion wrote:
> 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.
I don't see why not, although the URLs might get a bit long if they
had to keep the ISBNs for everything you've seen recently as well
as for everything in your shopping cart. One difficulty might be
that people like to paste URLs of items they're browsing, but
really the meaning of an Amazon book/product URI is
information about this product, customised for the current user
I think you'd get a different Amazon if you changed that to,
generic information about the product
You have similar issues with ebay, which shows you the last half
dozen or so items you viewed on each page.
This might be a place where Frames actually help, I'm not sure.
Liam
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Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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