Article:		Web Disservices: Microsoft's Misstep
Subject:		Will it scale?
Date:		2003-10-23 15:16:55
From:		David Byrden
Response to: Will it scale?
>> Mark's REST version of the service would encode >> the complex data types and binary as, erm, text >> representations. In what format? URL-encoded XML? How easy will that be to edit by hand, since editors for URL-encoded XML are not thick on the ground? On the programming side, putting the output of an XML serializer through an URL encoder would not be difficult; just pointless. Sorry, but having data in an URL instead of XML makes sense only when the data format is trivially simple. David

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