Re: RSS as a pseudo Web Service

bgranam wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've been musing about the possibility of using RSS as a kind of 
> pseudo Web Service and would like some opinions on the concept.
> 
> RSS would be used as a transport layer for arbitrary RDF content 
> between two or more computers. The RDF content would not be intended 
> for direct display, but would be parsed out with XSLT and fed into 
> another program for further processing.

I've never understood the desire to build transport layers on top of 
HTTP and call them "Web Services".

TCP/IP is a proven transport layer.

SSL and TLS are proven encrypted transport layers.

HTTP is a proven application layer that works on top of any of those.

Use that application layer to provide a service and you have a web service.

All the rest seems like busywork tbh.


 
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