On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:00:11AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > You guys may already know about this but I just recently discovered it > (even though it's been around for 6 years) and as I read about it I kept > thinking of Freenet since URI's in the form of SSK's and CHK's are > pretty much all a Freenet app has to work with. > > The best simple explanation: > > http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2004/12/12/rest-to-my-wife > > Wikipedia: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
Hmmm. So REST is a way of doing web services without using RPC, which is probably a bit closer to the semantic web ideal than e.g. SOAP? The problem with applying it to Freenet is that we have a very limited range of operations (POST and GET, essentially) and no servers... This may be why HTTP-NG failed... :) > > All based on this doctoral thesis: > > http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/abstract.htm -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060501/3d1db70c/attachment.pgp>
