Topics

Acronym Soup

• LAMP, WIMP
• CRUD, RPC, SOAP, REST

RSS

• Written as XML document.
• Served up with HTTP.

REST (or an approximation)

• Resources are accessed through a uniform interface.
• A REST protocol is client-server, stateless, cacheable, layered.
• WWW is RESTful: toggle
  • DB::HTTP as CRUD::POST,GET,PUT,DELETE
  • Problem: (X)HTML only allows POST and GET.