Hi All -
This sounds very promising, I'm all for it (but you knew I was going to say that right?).
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Matthew Graham wrote:
> If we are going down this path then I want to strongly reiterate (to
> this group and other IVOA groups) that we do it properly, i.e. pure REST
> interfaces and not the half-baked "well, it uses HTTP GET and verbs"
> that a lot of people mean by REST.
Actually, it is not all that easy to determine what REST really means. I think it is REST so long as GET URLs are reasonably persistent, are cacheable, and do not cause side-effects. This does not necessarily mean that we cannot have GET URLs which contain parameters (e.g., a DAL access reference). I have no problem with using POST for anything which causes side-affects, or for passing data elements.