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RE: Precondition support

From: Jerome Louvel <jerome.louvel_at_noelios.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:34:33 +0200

Julian,

> I do agree that it's up to the EG to decide what the goal is.
> As far as
> I am concerned, I think the API should make it dead easy to
> write good
> rest-based services, but there should be extension hooks for
> those who
> need to go beyond that.

Agreed.

> Maybe we should start to compile a list of extension points
> we need to
> consider?
>
> - method names
> - header types (syntax: list, precondition checking, entity header,
> character escaping...)
> - status codes
>
> ...and so on...

 - content negotiation
 - caching (setting of the 304 status, cache control)

Best regards,
Jerome