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Web application design: the REST of the story

• HTTP is a very general, scalable protocol. While most people only think of HTTP as including the GET and POST methods used by typical interactive browsers, HTTP actually defines several other methods that can be used to manipulate resources in a properly designed application (PUT and DELETE, for instance). The HTTP methods provide the verbs in a web interaction.
• Servers are completely stateless. Everything necessary to service a request is included by the client in the request.
• All application resources are described by unique URIs. Performing a GET on a given URI returns a representation of that resource's state (typically an HTML page, but possibly something else like XML). The state of a resource is changed by performing a POST or PUT to the resource URI. Thus, URIs name the nouns in a web interaction.

posted on 2010-01-08 14:50 honzeland 閱讀(262) 評論(0)  編輯  收藏 所屬分類: Web 、Restful