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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> There should be a cleaner solution though. I'm pretty sure the 
> shopping cart should be a resource and that it should have a URI of 
> its own. And I agree that you shouldn't have to POST into the 
> shopping cart. 

You need to POST into the shopping cart on REST principles, because
that is what POST is for, creating a new resource related to the old
one.  In this case, the new resource will be entitled "ERH Is Going To
Buy _Wittgenstein's Poker_", and a hyperlink will be added from the
cart resource to the newly created resource.  When you actually do
buy this, using a POST or PUT transaction depending on the design,
it will become "ERH Has Bought ...".

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