[mb-devel] XML Web Service to support DELETE, POST and PUT?

[Robert Kaye]

On Apr 22, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Oliver Charles wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At the moment, from what I've seen, it appears that the new XML Web  
> Service is only implementing a small portion of REST. I've briefly  
> spoken with a few folks over on IRC (I'm acid2) and a few of us are  
> interested in having an application editing application. It would  
> have a few advantages - dial up users, or those without a  
> connection when they need to edit won't be stopped from making  
> edits (if a local db is created somehow) as they can push changes  
> next time they have connectivity. It would also take the burden off  
> the webinterface, and the servers in general.
>
> I wouldn't mind giving this project a go, but from my quick  
> research into the XML Web Service, this doesn't seem possible yet.

I would very much like to see this for:

- Submitting votes via the WS.
- Retrieving edits via the WS (in order to submit votes)
- Submitting tags/ratings (planned for future releases this year)

However, I am very much concerned about submitting edits via the WS.  
I'm afraid that it will be too easy to submit a ton of edits.  
Undoubtedly some of these edits will be quite excellent and very  
useful, but others could use it as a tool for submitting tons of spam  
edits. Or worse, actual spam.

The web site, with edit notes and all the other features that go into  
our peer review system, work fairly well all things considered. I  
would be very hesitant to create new features that have the possible  
outcome that could destroy a working system.

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