[flud-devel] A very RESTful Christmas to all

[Alen Peacock]

  From the beginning, flud has been a proponent of many of the
features of REST
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer).  But
until recently, its protocol had been committing a couple of sins
against REST: the sin of too many verbs in URLs, the sin of abusing
GET for the purpose of DELETE, and the sin of passing the filekey as a
param instead of as a noun in the URL.

  These REST-ish issues are all fixed now in the repository.  In
addition, the flud protocol is now documented in some detail on the
wiki (http://flud.org/wiki/FludProtocol).  Feedback on the current
protocol is welcome.

  Although we are a long way from anyone wanting to write their own
flud implementation, the goal is to make the documentation complete
enough that doing so from description alone would get such a person
90% of the way there.  Even without independent implementation,
transparent, complete documentation of the protocol has big benefits.
What exists now is a good start towards that goal.

Alen