Re: atompub vs. webdav

["Thomas Broyer" <t.broyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Danny Ayers wrote:
>
> I vaguely remember early on in discussions some criticism of parts of
> WebDAV as being not-quite-RESTful.
>
> Could someone please remind me/point me to relevant discussion - what
> was wrong with WebDAV and how was it fixed in atompub?

"WebDAV isn't very RESTful […], because it relies on folder operations
instead of hypertext"
— Roy T. Fielding, http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/no-rest-in-cmis

The "fix" in atompub is the use of POST on a collection to create/add
a member, and no assumption that http://example.net/aaa/bbb is a
"member resource" of http://example.net/aaa/ which would then be a
"collection".

This has also been proposed as an extension to WebDAV by Julian
Reschke in his "POST to add to WebDAV Collections" Internet Draft
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-post-latest.html>.


-- 
Thomas Broyer