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).

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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jan Algermissen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi y'all-
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> REST defines the component types user agent, intermediary (proxy and
> gateway) and origin server.
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> User agents hold application state
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> Origin servers hold any state that is not application state
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> 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?
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> Can cached responses be considered 'state' from a software architectural
> style theory point of view?
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> Jan
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