Re: Intermediaries and state
mike amundsen <[email protected]>
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Jan: auth proxies can hold state (cached credential details for continued support fo messages that pass through). mca+1.859.757.1449 skype: mca.amundsen http://amundsen.com/blog/ http://twitter.com/mamund https://github.com/mamund http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeamundsen On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jan Algermissen < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi y'all- > > REST defines the component types user agent, intermediary (proxy and > gateway) and origin server. > > User agents hold application state > > Origin servers hold any state that is not application state > > Do intermediaries hold state? Is it possible that they do? Or is that > ruled out by definition? Would an origin server turn partially into an > origin server once it did hold state? > > Can cached responses be considered 'state' from a software architectural > style theory point of view? > > Jan > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >