[Zope] Zope's Webdav port for RESTful web service

[David Pratt]

Hi Tino.

Here are a couple of links that describe it.  Boils down to using 
regular GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE over HTTP using specific URI's to 
invoke actions - sort of like XMLRPC over HTTP.  It occurred to me that 
perhaps the current webdav server could be modified to handle requests 
for this purpose.  I wondered how sensible this would be and whether 
anyone else has considered this or other options for setting up another 
listener for this type of service to their sites.

REST Web Service Conventions:

- Plain XML is the data representation format.
- HTTP is the transfer protocol.
- HTTP's GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE are the access/manipulation verbs.
- URIs point to individual data records (such as catalog items or 
customer info).
- HTTP authentication and SSL provide security.

http://www.networkworld.com/ee/2003/eerest.html
http://www.osmoticweb.com/rest-web-service-demo.htm
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/08/17/restful-web.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/02/rest-on-rails.html
http://hinchcliffe.org/archive/2005/02/12/171.aspx

Regards,
David


On Saturday, November 26, 2005, at 09:26 PM, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 26.11.2005, 21:17 -0400 schrieb David Pratt:
>> Hi. I am looking at how to implement a RESTful web service in Zope2.
>
> Could you expand a bit on whatever a RESTful web service is?
>
> thx
> Tino
>