Re: [Fwd: A modest proposal for an OpenSocial RESTful API]

["Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 27, 2008, at 12:33 AM, John Panzer wrote:

> FYI -- Thought that some people on this list might be interested in  
> this, both as a usage of Atom and related topics such as batching  
> and patching.

As has been discussed before, batching (tunneling multiple requests  
within
a single POST instead of just using HTTP pipelining) is evil.  Don't  
do it.
It duplicates all of HTTP within HTTP, squares the complexity of  
implementation,
and absolutely guarantees that you will have security holes.

If you are worried about the 2616 requirement that non-idempotent  
requests
must not be pipelined, then just ignore it -- you are ignoring it anyway
by sending a pipeline within a multipart.

....Roy