Stefan Tilkov wrote: > If my client > program requests a particular invoice, it might receive a 404 > response code -- which it will know how to handle in a generic way > because this is part of the HTTP standard. It might also receive a > 301 (Moved Permanently) even though this is not even described in the > Blinksale docs -- but it will know what to do (never request the > resource at that URI again, but at the one returned in the 301 > response).
This seems like a tie to the HTTP protocol. How would a RESTful application use something besides HTTP but also be able to use HTTP as one of its choices? It seems that the REST you are describing here is really HTTP programming. Gregg Wonderly
