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At 8:51 PM -0500 1/6/04, Rich Salz wrote: >Those sites are scalable only because SSL does what REST doesn't >allow: it maintains a cache of state (session key) between client >and server. Without that shared state, SSL is too expensive and >impractical, as it requires a public-key operation on the server >for every connection, and good random bits from the client. Just to be clear, REST has no objection to running over SSL. REST defines a use pattern for application layer protocols. It is transport layer agnostic. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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