[Ovirt-devel] OVirt public API

[Michael DeHaan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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
>   

I read that as "REST is a protocol whos return values are based on HTTP 
error codes."

You've got to admit you understood it, so arguing about it seems kind of 
pointless.