At 8:51 PM -0500 1/6/04, Rich Salz wrote:
>Those sites are scalable only because SSL does what REST doesn't
>allow: it maintains a cache of state (session key) between client
>and server. Without that shared state, SSL is too expensive and
>impractical, as it requires a public-key operation on the server
>for every connection, and good random bits from the client.
Just to be clear, REST has no objection to running over SSL. REST
defines a use pattern for application layer protocols. It is
transport layer agnostic.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
