Re: the meaning of stateless

Jan Algermissen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25.04.2013, at 00:11, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 
> I just asked Mark Baker today about this giving an example transaction that does depend on a previous request[3] which was similar to what was recommended in Richardson & Ruby's REST book. So I'll repeat the above question: are RESTful systems not able to do workflow or transactions?  Or is there some other nuance that differentiates between a session and a shopping cart or a transaction?

Try this:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2010Oct/0100.html

Jan


> 
> I'm not trolling, I'm honestly trying to come up with a way to understand Roy's Rules of REST in a concrete,  objective and unambiguous manner so I can be sure that I'm always employing them correctly and I don't feel I can do that yet.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> [1] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19326
> [2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19327
> [3] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19353
> 
> 



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