[REBOL] httpmail hotmail rebol
From: bry::itnisk::com at: 9-Oct-2003 11:35
I recently had an email from someone, stemming from the Asynchronous
Pluggable Protocols article, who wanted to use Rebol to access their
hotmail. I don't think I answered in any helpful way, cause I didn't
quite understand the question correctly.
One thing about hotmail that I knew, but I didn't have any clear info
on, was that Hotmail exposes its functionality via a version of webDAV:
http://www.webdav.org/
I found the description of exactly how it does so today:
http://jhttpmail.sourceforge.net/httpmail.html
in case the person who asked me is on this list now I thought it might
be nice to pass it along, also thought it might be nice to pass it along
as this is a good example of a REST-based approach to web services,
http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html which is a particular
design for which I think Rebol would be well-suited.
So in case anyone wants to work with hotmail this way, this should be a
good start.
It might also be a good service to provide using Rebol to collect email
from various services, and building a httpmail repository for these
mails. (think I found a business use for Rebol)