Re: Bookmark 'stability'

Jan Algermissen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sep 22, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote:

>> Bookmarking is an inherent aspect of RESTful systems. Bookmarking is not coupling. It is the other way round: because clients will bookmark, servers pretty much have an implicit obligation to maintain URIs over time once they 'got out'.
> 
> Uh, "I'm a server, I need to keep this URI because clients use it" is
> pretty much textbook coupling.


It's been there from day one:

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

It's a best practice resulting from TBL intentionally dropping referential integrity.

Jan
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.