Simon Fell > Its just code > RPCish
Saturday, April 05, 2003
RPCish Sam responds to my earlier comment on the preview API. At some level all the choices smell RPCish to me, this is about the point I get stuck on the whole RPC/REST/Messaging discussion, why is any of these magically better than the others, they all have something indicates what to do with the message.POST /blog/1315.html?preview=yes
host: www.intertwingly.net
content-type: text/xml
<Envelope xmlns='....'>
<Body>
<item xmlns=''>....
POST /blog/1315.html
host: www.intertwingly.net
content-type: text/xml
<Envelope xmlns='....'>
<Header>
<b:Preview/>
</Header>
<Body>
<item xmlns=''>....
POST /blog/1315.html
host: www.intertwingly.net
content-type: text/xml
<Envelope xmlns='....'>
<Body>
<b:Preview>
<item xmlns=''>....
The top one seems to follow REST the closest (at least given my understanding of REST), I'm not seeing why 2 is better than 3, but am eager to learn!
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