Re: the meaning of stateless

Eric Bowman wrote:
> My nutshell explanation of REST from 50,000ft is that a system
> designed to manipulate shopping carts MUST be based on
> transferring actual representations of shopping-cart contents.

I hesitated to get back into this issue after having lost an argument
with Mark Baker about it a couple of years ago, but:  the typical
behavior of a system that saves shopping cart contents on servers
(e.g. Amazon) is to send a representation of the shopping cart
contents back to the client to confirm the order, in which case, a
representation of the shopping cart contents then gets sent back to
the server from the client.

Would e.g. Mark and Eric agree that this is RESTful?