[ProgSoc] Troll for the day
James Andrewartha
jamesa at daa.com.au
Thu Nov 5 17:24:35 EST 2009
John Elliot wrote:
> Roland Turner wrote:
>> John Elliot wrote:
>>> How can you see something like this [1] and believe anyone who says
>>> HTTP is stateless?
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.progsoc.org/progsoc/2009-November/001228.html
>> I don't see the connection.
>
> The URL didn't change over time but the HTTP response did.
I'll bite: stateless does not mean idempotent. Further, stateless refers to
the transfer protocol, whereas idempotence in REST refers to the server
state not varying regardless of how many GET requests you issue. In this
case, the server state has changed (thanks to a chmod) so the response
changed too.
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James Andrewartha
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