Stefan Tilkov wrote: > PUT is nice because it's [supposed to be] idempotent. POST is not. > This means that a client is allowed (within REST's constraints) to > retry a PUT if it hasn't received a response. > If you have only POST - for whatever reason - you need to do > something else. Examples include http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/ > <http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/> > draft-nottingham-http-poe/ and http://www.goland.org/draft-goland- > <http://www.goland.org/draft-goland-> > http-reliability-00.text
Stefan, the text above seems to suggest that REST could be used interchangibly with HTTP. Did you mean to say (within HTTP's constraints)? Or did I miss the memo that said REST means exactly HTTP and the associated operations? Gregg Wonderly
