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Subject: Re: [wsrp] Re: Q about resource usage with http post
I would like to emphasize the problem that Lars has described in detail
below.
In transaction-oriented highly interactive systems, such background
interaction where only optimized pieces of the page are being refreshed
instead of the whole page is increasingly becoming the rule instead of an
exception. One may argue that the combination of HTTP+HTML was not
designed to support such interaction but that's a moot point as we have to
live within these limitation until rich clients bring back a smarter
version of client-server.
In the past few months, I have had discussions with quite a few content
providers around the technical aspects of WSRP. More than a few have
described it as a standard that is not fully baked out or is out of touch
with reality. If you probe a little further one of the complaints that
surfaces almost immediately has to do with the technical limitations that
WSRP puts on highly frequent user interaction. Complaints ranging from
mandating the consumer as the ubiquitous proxy essentially slowing down
every single request to the implicit assumption that refreshing the whole
page with every request would be acceptable to users in the real world.
For example, in this case we will have to be forced to use the resource
template and go directly to the content server whenever partial page
refresh is involved. We don't want to do that and it is not an optimal
design but the limitations of the spec will force us in this direction.
Otherwise we don't support WSRP at all but that will not provide value to
our customers and also significantly weaken the standard.
It's time that the 2.0 version and subsequent specs focuss on the
interactive systems and take requirements from them. We should try to
accomodate those requirements in 2.0 and subsequent specs even if it means
breaking the theoretically pleasing aspects of the spec. The bottom line
is that the spec is useless until and unless content providers support it.
We already have all the leading portal vendors supporting WSRP consumption
but little non-trivial activity on production. What will make this
standard viable and popular is the rapid increase in the number of content
providers supporting it for production. Issues like the one that Lars has
stated in his mail below present a significant road-block for achieving
that vision.
PeopleSoft is a leading provider of highly interactive enterprise
applications. We will continue to work with the WSRP committee to make it
into a more feasible standard for us and for other content providers who
are facing problems that are similar to us. In my opinion, to enable wide
adoption of this spec among producers, we will need a shift in the way we
approach it -- a shift away from a portal vendor perspective to a
interactive content provider's perspective. Without such a shift, we
might end up with thousands of earnest consumers with nothing to consume.
Thanks,
Khurram
lars_hofhansl@peo
plesoft.com To: richt2@us.ibm.com
cc: wsrp@lists.oasis-open.org, (bcc: Khurram Mahmood/PeopleSoft)
09/24/2004 10:03 Subject: Re: [wsrp] Re: Q about resource usage with http post
AM
We have potentially a lot of information to send; more than the maximum
size of a URL (which is also browser dependent). We could chunk the
information, send multiple GET requests and re-assemble the fragments on
the server, but I'd rather perform a simple POST.
There are also security issues. POSTed information is automatically secure
when using SSL, for GET encoded data we'd have to do our own encryption
(for example if access logging is enabled on the server where the resource
is served from).
-- Lars
"Rich Thompson"
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wsrp@lists.oasis-open.org
m> cc: (bcc: Lars
Hofhansl/PeopleSoft)
Subject: Re: [wsrp] Re: Q
about resource usage with http post
09/23/2004 12:20
PM
As I read your first paragraph, I also went to using the concept of
resources as the right way to accomplish what you need (i.e. the updated
fragment is a resource from the Consumer's point of view). Is there a
particular reason the information you want to transfer has to be via http
post rather than get? This sounds a lot like some of the things I did in a
previous research project, but we used http get for all the transfers.
Rich
lars_hofhansl@peoplesoft.com
09/23/2004 02:35 PM To
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Subject
[wsrp] Re: Q about resource usage
with http post
In our case we are implementing a mechanims for "selective page refresh"
using DHTML. I.e. we have to completely bypass the Portlet Interaction
model. There seems to be no specific provision for this in the WSRP Spec
(V1). For example performBlockingAction() either has to return the complete
markup or it has to be followed by getMarkup(), we can't just return some
change information and partially update a portlet. (I realize that when
multiple portlets are displayed by a Consumer and one of the portlets needs
to be re-rendered that the Consumer may re-render all portlet, which breaks
our selective refresh paradigm for that case.)
For these reasons we're trying to POST to resourceURL in order to handle
our data exchange, then update the representation using DHTML based on the
exchanged information without triggering any (Consumer visible) refreshes
in the Consumer.
Now, the V1 WSRP spec in 10.2.1.1.3.1 says that the cosumer is "encouraged
to use the same communication style (e.g. HTTP Get or POST)" that was used
by the user-agent. That does not seem to mandate that behavior and thus we
cannot assume that all Consumers will indeed behave that way.
Thanks.
-- Lars
Rich Thompson wrote:
I don't know of cases where people have used http post in this manner, but
the spec anticipates that such cases may exist and allows the markup to
specify use of post with the requirement that the Consumer then also use
post when passing the request on to the resource url. This keeps the
Consumer truly acting as a proxy for these resources.
Rich
ricky_frost@peoplesoft.com
09/21/2004 05:36 PM To
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Subject
[wsrp] Q about resource usage
with http post
Is HTTP post supported for resource operations according to the spec? My
reading of it points to an ambiguous statement to that effect on pg 62,
section 10.2.1.1.3.1
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