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Liam Quin scripsit: > I don't see why not, although the URLs might get a bit long if they > had to keep the ISBNs for everything you've seen recently as well > as for everything in your shopping cart. REST imposes no such requirement. There is no problem with servers keeping state; it's just that the state has to be expressed as a hyperdocument which can be retrieved by presenting an appropriate URI (plus appropriate security credentials as needed). Having a page called "Liam Quin's Recent Purchases" with an URL like http://store.example.com/recent/liamquinn32 is no problem; you would have to present your credentials to view this page, since its contents are sensitive. Presumably it would contain links to pages with titles like "Liam Quinn's 2004-01-01 Purchase of _The Complete Works of Leon Trotsky_", which in turn would provide a link to the page for the Complete Works. It is the latter (unsecured) you would normally link to. -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@r... over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
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