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Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks
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Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks

by Jack Moffitt, Frederic Daoud
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
7h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Day 3: Illuminating HTTP’s Dark Corners

Webmachine has a unique way of modeling HTTP requests as a state machine, but so far you’ve seen it handling things you’ve likely seen in most web libraries and frameworks. Let’s look at some things that Webmachine enables that aren’t usually found in its peers.

First, we’ll take a look at caching. The HTTP protocol has a lot of support for caching, including expiry and versioning. Webmachine exposes these features in resource functions, just like the other parts of HTTP you’ve already seen.

After caching, we’ll look at HTTP authorization. While some frameworks support authorization, most don’t support HTTP-based authorization and many don’t support any kind at all out of the box. For Webmachine, ...

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