Archive for September, 2007

Why does the Flash Player Have Such Crappy HTTP Support?

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I’ve found myself enjoying working with Adobe Flex. Flex does a lot of things really well, except its support of the HTTP protocol. Here’s a few things folks don’t know about the Flash Players HTTP support:

It only support GET and POST methods. In order to use other methods such as DELETE and PUT, you have [...]

Some Thoughts on Securing Web Resources

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Lately I’ve been trying to figure some figure out some new ways to define declarative security constraints to web resources. Here’s the a use case that popped into my head a while back: suppose you have a service to access a persons information on a social networking site such as:

http://mysocialnetwork.foo/people/12345
This service offers two levels of [...]

The State of RESTEasy

Monday, September 17th, 2007

It’s been a while since my last post and even longer since I blogged about RESTEasy. Or better yet, since I committed a change to the RESTEasy code base. This might have lead some to believe that RESTEasy has been abandoned and will cease to exist. Since I have been getting inquiries from friends as [...]