DELETE, PUT http

[Richard Gaskin]

Maarten Koopmans wrote:

> I there a way to have LIvecode do PUT and DELETE via http/https,
> hopefully witj digest authentication? So you can use the UI tools to
> integrate with REST services? I see great chanches here :-)

"PUT" is well supported in addition to "GET" - check out the entry for 
"PUT" in the dictionary.

AFAIK "DELETE" is only natively supported for FTP, but I would love to 
be wrong on that if anyone here knows otherwise.


> Suddenly firing a lot of questions, because after years of using
> LC/runrev for small things I want to do some more heavy lifting.
> Coming from a Scala/Scheme/Rebol background I get the event model, but
> I need to learn some library tricks (as with any new language) and get
> a model of how to do some larger scale programming.

My dream would be to see Rebol offered as a subsystem within LiveCode, 
so we get the best of both worlds:  LC's rich GUI model with Rebol's 
unmatched extensibility.

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