Re: [xml-dev] REST has too many verbs

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Re: [xml-dev] REST has too many verbs
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:26:30 -0500, in xml you wrote:

>On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:31 pm, Amy Lewis wrote:
>> >I like the notion of a spectrum of possibilities.  BEEP certainly
>> > seems capable of supporting very complex modes of communication. 
>> > HTTP can be useful for request-response.  I'd like something
>> > that's just 'send' (aka XMLChucker) to fill out the bottom.
>>
>> DIME?  Currently an internet draft, but some impls exist.
>
>This occurred to me too... I didn't like DIME at first blush, but DIME 
>on a socket  (DOS) might be close to what Simon was talking about.

IIRC, There's bindings for DIME to TCP & UDP defined in the WS-Routing
spec. And to clarify one of Simon's earlier points, its valid to have
a DIME message that's only a single record long.

Cheers
Simon
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