On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Donal Lafferty wrote: >> Sorry for the delay in responding. >> >> The GET / POST limit to HTTP verbs simplifies exposing the agent with HTML >> forms. Using these verbs the agent interface can be exposed via HTML forms >> should the developer want to use a browser for diagnostics, experimentation >> or testing. IIRC, HTML 5 expands set of acceptable methods, but sticking to >> HTML 4's GET/POST limit removes the HTML 5 limit. >> > > Understood, but can't testing be done via a tool like curl just as > easily? Being constrained by a presentation layer spec for an app to > app integration seems odd. +1 I don't see why HTML forms come into play here. just my 0.02 cents > > I'm not totally against your URI design, I just don't particularly love > it. It's really just HTTP, so let's not call it REST at all if we go > down that path.
