Python REST framework?

Will Stuyvesant hwlgw at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 3 08:20:24 EDT 2003


> [Jack Diederich]
> Practicality beats purity, if the only piece of state you keep is 
> "this guy is logged in and he authenticated as 'Bob'" then you still
> get 99.99% of the cleanliness of REST.  If the workarounds to make
> it 100% REST-ful actually make the solution harder to use and implement
> then I'll gladly be [a little bit] non REST-ty.
> 
> The point of REST is to make things easier to do and cleaner to
> understand, not just so you can name drop "REST", right?
>

I thought REST was about "interoperability", a stupid word and I would
like another but my English is bad.  The idea is that HTTP + XML is so
much standard that everybody can use your services.

But for some, think about people in the industry, the strongest
argument for REST is scalability.  The web and email are the only
examples of *really* scalable application, where the numbers are
dozens of millions.  And REST is the web's architecture.


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