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How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)

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Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)

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Post by sp332 » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

glenjamin wrote: post #50

sp332 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emails don't have URIs. My email boxes don't have URIs. My main problem is that there's no way to link emails together, so they're not really part of any web.

Does mailto:person@example.com not count as a URI to your mailbox?

I meant /Inbox, /Trash, /Spam etc.

Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)

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Post by paulnechifor » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

dgreensp wrote: post #43

Yes, and we also have XML, the Academically Correct and proven-in-the-field way to represent all entities. I get the "URLs are nouns" metaphor, but I don't think it needs any additional promotion or particularly favors HTTP over whatever else might emerge.

Better yet, RDF. It's the final solution for data representation.

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