On May 13, 2009, at May 13, 20099:58 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On 13 May 2009, at 18:43, Jared Scheel wrote:
Sorry for responding to my original message instead of a reply in the
thread, but I seem to be having some issues with the mailing list.
Oliver, you are right, I could use a javascript wrapper for flash.
The
problem with that is that it introduces a second dependency to
interact with the REST interface.
It adds a second API and complexity to CouchDB to support
non-standard clients. I.e: If you don't speak HTTP, you can't
talk to CouchDB.
In nearly every REST API I've written in the last 5 years I've checked
for x-http-method-override and just changed the request method in the
request before it hits the rest of the application logic.
Not too long ago, Safari didn't support PUT and everyone, especially
Google, got on the x-http-method-override bandwagon. In fact, I
believe all of their APIs still support x-http-method-override.
This silly limitation is a lot more common than you would think and
it's usually done under some kind of "security" pretense. Sure, this
particular time around it's Flash, which I certainly couldn't care
less about, but I think as more clients start using CouchDB you're
going to see this come up more and more.
I think it's unfair to characterize these clients as "not supporting
HTTP" when in reality they support a sandboxed HTTP API which
unnecessarily limits their usage.
-Mikeal
