[Standards] fyi: Evented APIs www.eventedapi.org

2011-10-20 Thread =JeffH
just a headzup in case this is of interest.. Evented APIs http://www.eventedapi.org/ Overview Events indicate something has happened. In this they differ from the request-response interaction style popular on the Web. Event-based systems are declarative whereas request-response systems are

Re: [Standards] fyi: Evented APIs www.eventedapi.org

2011-10-20 Thread Matthew Wild
On 20 October 2011 17:43, =JeffH jeff.hod...@kingsmountain.com wrote: just a headzup in case this is of interest.. Why use HTTP instead of XMPP or some other notification protocol? There are several reasons:   1. HTTP is available everywhere online. Very few firewalls block port 80.   2.

Re: [Standards] fyi: Evented APIs www.eventedapi.org

2011-10-20 Thread Kim Alvefur
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 23:46 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: If email were just being invented today, it would use HTTP... I have no doubt. http://blog.mailgun.net/post/11622797058/mailgun-api-2-0-forget-mime Just wait for them to propose that as a standard for s2s delivery. -- Kim Alvefur