[Protocol bits] Is WebDAV RESTful?

[Dan Brickley]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Mark Baker wrote:

Hi

> The practical reason for GET is that is that I shouldn't have to know
> the secret handshake to get a URI to tell me what it is; I should just
> invoke GET.  GET and URIs go hand-in-hand.  You can't have one without
> the other.

What does a GET on mailto:distobj@acm.org amount to? Or on
uuid:234234636343562134362 ? Lots of URI schemes don't have anything
analagous to HTTP's notion of GET, PUT etc verbs. A pity, f'sure... In
fact, is it _only_ HTTP that has such a notion? I can feed
ftp://ftp.acm.org/pub/ to my browser and it does something GET-like, but
do we anywhere have a spec that extends the notion of a GET to non-HTTP
URI schemes? Maybe you mean GET and HTTP URIs go hand in hand?

Dan