[PRL] REST?

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Feb 16, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:19:48AM -0500, Johan wrote:
>> REpresentational State Transfer.
>>
>> As near as I can tell, the idea is that the URL represents the 
>> totality
>> of the current client state.  [ie, very distictly NOT a session key].
>> The connection to continuations would appear to be that if the server
>> maintains client state in a hashtable of continuations, each
>> continuation's hash makes a fine rest URL.
>
> Does it?  I don't know much about designing web apps; that's more 
> Greg's
> area.  But it seems to me that a continuation hash is just a fancy
> session key.  If you actually want to represent *all* of the client's
> state in the URL, then you'd need to do something like representing the
> continuation itself (rather than a continuation ID) in the URL -- a bit
> like what Greg's been working on recently.

Yes, but I doubt that's enough. You need the state of variables, too. 
No? -- Matthias