[Info-vax] Restful API w/JSON client package or library on OpenVMS

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:27:05 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 3/14/2024 9:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:29:21 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> A RESTful service is stateless so it cannot keep a
>>> session server side.
>> 
>> Who says it can’t?
> 
> Fielding.

Who is this “Fielding”?

>> If a REST client is not a web browser, it doesn’t have to abide by web
>> browser security restrictions.
> 
> The client can do anything it wants to.
> 
> But using browser cookie HTTP headers for implementing
> a different semantics than browsers do is the worst possible
> design.

Who says it has “different semantics than browsers do”?