Re: REST and DELETE?
Mike Kelly <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.services.rest |
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On 15 Aug 2012, at 07:37, "Eric J. Bowman" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> There's a whole continuum of self-descriptiveness, and >> some parts of an interaction do not necessarily need visibility. For >> example, if my API requires clients to include headers for their >> star-sign... >> > > All parts of a RESTful system require self-descriptive messaging, it's > a constraint. Any application-specific headers that intermediaries > have no need to consider to determine how to process a message, have no > bearing on self-descriptiveness. How are you determining whether or not a given header needs to be considered by an intermediary? What if I need a proxy distributing requests through my system dependant on the client's star sign? I think it might help if you share some extracts from the dissertation that back up the point you are trying to make. Cheers, M