Re: Bookmark 'stability'

>Yes indeed. But media types /= data types. The web works fine without
being recompiled every morning.


Maybe this is not a good thing. Think about how much our compilers would
have to be!

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Paul Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Eric J. Bowman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Paul Cohen wrote:
> >>
> >> My understanding of coupling in the context of data types is quite the
> >> opposite! Also I don't see that REST deals with data types at all -
> >> standardized or not.
> >>
> >
> > OMG, standardized media types are a key concept of REST,
>
> Yes indeed. But media types /= data types. The web works fine without
> being recompiled every morning.
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> >> I don't think you understood what I meant. I used the term "coupling"
> >> in the sense that this client requirement on the server (of
> >> maintaining URI:s) leads to undesired consequences for the developers
> >> and the server.
> >>
> >
> > Client requests old URL. Server responds 308 with new URL. Client
> > updates bookmark, never requests obsolete URL again. There is no
> > coupling here, by any definition of the term.
>
> I am not arguing against that this is good behaviour on the part of
> the server. I'm saying that there should be no formal requirement for
> a server to maintain (for ever) all URI:s that have been exposed to
> clients.
>
> We don't seem to have the same understanding of the terms involved or
> problem, so I'm leaving the discussion for now.
>
>
> /Paul
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