[Ovirt-devel] OVirt public API

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:02:18PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:14:37PM +0200, Thomas von Steiger wrote:
> >  
> >>On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:16 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> >
> >Frankly that's a rather dubious article, eg to quote 
> >  
> >  "REST is an HTTP based protocol. Whereas XML-RPC is XML based."
> >
> >What network protocol exactly does the author think the XML is being sent
> >over ?!?!? Does he really think you can't send XML over HTTP ? Or another
> >  
> 
> That sentence is correct. REST does not specify XML. It has zero defined 
> protocol for the data other
> than that it uses some set of HTTP error codes and operations.

No, its uttter crap when you're using that as a comparison.  REST uses
HTTP,  XML-RPC uses HTTP.  REST can use XML. XML-RPC uses XML. It is not
a meaningful statement when you're comparing the two.

Daniel
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