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On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 12:31, Leigh Dodds wrote: > Hmmm... > > Fielding: "HTTP is not RPC" > http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/evaluation.htm#sec_6_5_2 "What makes HTTP significantly different from RPC is that the requests are directed to resources using a generic interface with standard semantics that can be interpreted by intermediaries almost as well as by the machines that originate services." That's called redefining something in order to prove that you are not it. It's a nice rhetorical trick, and useful with people who already believe your definitions, but I don't think Fielding escapes all claims that the HTTP protocol is itself RPC. Fielding's good food for thought, and so is Don Box. I don't think statements from either of them qualify as axiomatic, but they're certainly good people to disagree with creatively. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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