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Liam Quin scripsit:
> 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.
REST imposes no such requirement. There is no problem with servers
keeping state; it's just that the state has to be expressed as a
hyperdocument which can be retrieved by presenting an appropriate URI
(plus appropriate security credentials as needed).
Having a page called "Liam Quin's Recent Purchases" with an URL like
http://store.example.com/recent/liamquinn32 is no problem; you would
have to present your credentials to view this page, since its contents
are sensitive. Presumably it would contain links to pages with titles
like "Liam Quinn's 2004-01-01 Purchase of _The Complete Works of Leon
Trotsky_", which in turn would provide a link to the page for the
Complete Works. It is the latter (unsecured) you would normally link to.
--
"No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan
useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com
internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@reutershealth.com
over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
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