Re: Bookmark 'stability'

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jan Algermissen <[email protected]
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> On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote:
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> > "Cool URIs don't change" is not a RESTful principle.
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> I said "best practice", not "principle".
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> And IMHO, striving for keeping URIs stable is a key ingredient of making
> RESTful systems work despite their inherent non-coupling.
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It's still not clear why you believe bookmarking is not coupling:

"A REST API must not define fixed resource names or hierarchies (an obvious
coupling of client and server). Servers must have the freedom to control
their own namespace."

A server that is obligated to keep all its URIs "stable" is not a server
that has freedom to control its own namespace.

Cheers,
M