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21st November 2007 - Link Blog

A Taxonomy of Event- and REST-based Comet. Kris Zyp describes a conceptual model for Comet messages based on REST semantics (so you can send a PUT referencing a specific URI down to a client to represent an idempotent state change).

Posted 21st November 2007 at 8:18 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st November 2007.

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