Ugh... Not that giant paper on rest.. Where you realize no one actually does rest as defined by the paper... I was just curious....also I wouldn't want someone to shy away from cocudb because a misconception like that On Nov 6, 2013 8:01 AM, "Jens Alfke" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 6, 2013, at 6:47 AM, matt j. sorenson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So, statelessness is defined more at the application level (meaning > > couchdb); and is fundamentally a pattern of RESTful interfaces - meaning > > each request and response contains anything & everything necessary to > > communicate application state... is that more/less correct? It's been > quite > > a few years since I *skimmed* Fielding's paper ;) > > Yup. Strictly speaking a REST API doesn’t even have to run over HTTP — see > Google’s SPDY protocol for an example. > > —Jens
