Tuna Breath

RedLightGreen not RESTful

[This was an email conversation since comment spammers had already hit the post on ISBNs...]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Hickey,Thom wrote:
>
> We tried to create a bookmarklet
> (http://alcme.oclc.org/bookmarks/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListRecords
>
> aPrefix=oai_dc> &metadataPrefix=oai_dc) for RedLightGreen, but your
> session-orientation foiled us. It would be nice if RLGreen were a bit
more
> 'RESTfull' so simple services could connect to it.
>

Thanks for your interest in RedLightGreen. As you may know, it's still
a pilot project for RLG. We're in the middle of investigating a number
of different issues and possibilities with the system, and i'm afraid
the session handling issue isn't as high a priority as some others. I
suspect our first change along those lines will be to make the
"edition views" free of the session overhead -- and free to be linked.
We've got some performance issues that we try to manage with the
sessions; refactoring the session starting and tuning some other
performance aspects will help lead us to a more "RESTful" state.