On Mar 26, 2009, at 12:35 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
question: is there anything that HTTP makes us lose except
for the transactional nature of create?
sanity?
That's dead and buried already :-( But I've got be honest
with you -- REST is actually the closes thing to 9P
that has a potential to excite PHBs and thus get approved.
HTTP is stateless, yes, but the biggest PITA that brought us
so far would be authentication, not the core functionality.
to "create" would be POST with a metadata payload on a
"subdirectory" URI. But of course, it is not a create at all.
i'm not sure what fine hair you're trying to split. why can't the
post contain the same information a create would?
If "hair splitting" is the answer to the original question -- that's
completely fine. In fact, I was looking for that to be an answer.
It's just that everytime I see something being explicitly forbidden
in 9P spec there's usually a pretty good reason for that.
Thanks,
Roman.
