Re: [xml-dev] A Real RESTful online store? - was Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:32:30PM -0500,  wrote:
> Having a page called "Liam Quin's Recent Purchases" with an URL like
> http://store.example.com/recent/liamquinn32 is no problem;

Indeed (although I"m not sure what the "n32" is for ;-) ).
This is not, however, what Amazon and ebay do.

They put the information on other pages one browses, so that
any given Amazon (say) product page is customised with a mixture
of things one has browsed recently, things Amazon thinks I
might want to buy, etc., as well as the main product.

That's a little harder to do RESTfully.  You and I fetching the
same resource from Amazon ge markedly different results, and
with good reason.  I'm not saying you can't do it, though.

Liam

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Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/