RESTful Web Services

[eluser]cbmeeks[/eluser]
[quote author="tonanbarbarian" date="1196410434"]I do not think anyone truely builds REST using the PUT and DELETE methods because there is no guarentee that a webserver will support those method. If the firewall does not block it the Webserver might.
About the only webserver I can think that might support it without configuration is IIS and maybe only in version 4. I think 5 and 6 with the added layers of security probably limit PUT and DELETE unless allowed.

So I think most people who implement REST on a webserver just use POST methods to do this.[/quote]

No, I have actually done it with Python and Ruby to an Apache web server. But I controlled the server so I know it can be done.

I think most people use POST/GET only because it's easier. But I'm really wondering about the security now.