[Protocol bits] Is WebDAV RESTful?

[Mark Baker]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:29:47AM -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
> What does a GET on mailto:distobj@acm.org amount to?

For you?  403, Forbidden. 8-)

> Or on
> uuid:234234636343562134362 ?

That depends, what does it identify?

> Lots of URI schemes don't have anything
> analagous to HTTP's notion of GET, PUT etc verbs. A pity, f'sure...

What if we proxied the GET?

telnet someproxy.org 80
GET uuid:234234636343562134362 HTTP/1.1

> 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

That's not just GET-like, it is (logically) GET.  GET is defined to be
the action of resolving a hypertext link.  If you click on a URI, you
are in effect (and actually, if an HTTP proxy is used) invoking GET.

> 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?

Nope, all URI.  See;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Apr/0119

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Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred)
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