an essay
Content may be accessed in many different ways, by humans and by robots. There's HTTP, which is the main human-centric browsing interface (of Berylium, at least) but which is also heavily used by web-crawling robots. On the manipulation side, there is XML-RPC-- the Blogger API is an example.
But there's also email, chat, FTP, and raw data interfaces, not to mention content-syndication like RSS and OCS. On top of all the public interfaces to a CMS, there is also internal communication that must happen in order to provide translation, scheduling, reporting, and garbage collection.
And now I'm reading about RDF and the Semantic web -- which is HTTP-based, but also invokes the PUT method. This might deserve some serious focus in the next wave of Berylium development.
By Chris Snyder on February 6, 2003 at 11:03am