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Paul James
Personal blog · peej.co.uk/articleswebsecurity
Paul James's personal blog at peej.co.uk covers web and security. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Paul James's posts on HTTP authentication with HTML forms, a RESTful Delicious example, and his Tonic project. They cite them as support for their own points about REST and web auth.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Every single one of these concerns can be solved wuth digest auth over javascript: http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.htm... and http://www.berenddeboer.net/rest/authentication.html
Comment linking /articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html
on “Your Web Service Might Not Be RESTful If…”Submitted Living Without Sessions as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThis is incredibly necessary for HTTP authentication to be useful, and bizarrely, has been given little to no attention over the years. There's a proposal for HTTP authentication in HTML dating all the way back to 1999: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-authentform With only some complex Javascript hacks making it a possible solution: http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.htm... Also, HTTP authentication…
Comment linking /articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html
on “Firesheep, a day later”Submitted E-mail Sign On as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttp://www.peej.co.uk/tonic/
Comment linking /tonic/
on “Ask HN: What stack do you use to build a REST API?”It's hard to get what ReST is because, like AJAX, it is not a standard, language, or library, it is just a set of best practices. Typically, APIs and other web services are loosley described as ReSTful if they use HTTP and XML. Here is a good example: http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/restfully-delicious.html
Comment linking /articles/restfully-delicious.html
on “Ask HN: What is RESTful development?”