Posted by lawrence k on 05/17/06 07:32

ryanh wrote:
> Given that HTML forms only support GET and POST, how am I supposed to
> use other REST/HTTP commands? Building some kind of "middle-tier"
> controller that submits curl requests kinda defeats the purpose...

Using fsocketopen you could ping a server with any of REST's other
verbs, but you're still using REST even if you stick with GET and POST.
REST isn't about using a bunch of fancy of verbs, its about avoiding
the cost and complexity of WS*. I think a lot of people now feel that
SOAP and the other web services were deliberately made overly complex
so that programmers would be forced to use vendor tools.

For a reasonably anti- WS* view, read this:

http://fuzzypanic.blogspot.com/2006/05/spitting-up-j2ee-hippo-now-what-about.html

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