[pb2au]

The great-grandparent suggested:

  echo "Testing status update" >> /facebook/me/posts

I think appending content to a file path (with or without the trailing slash) is clearer than the analogy of a truncating write to a directory path (where the trailing slash is required).

The current model seems similar to the REST interpretation of CRUD, where > equates to 'create' and >> to 'update', and creating a resource is done at the collection URL. Nothing wrong with this, but it seems slightly unintuitive to me.

My suggested mapping would be:

  >/facebook/me/posts - Unsupported (or delete all posts, and make a new one)

  >>/facebook/me/posts - Add a new facebook post

  >/facebook/me/posts/long_numeric_id - Update post (truncate)

  >>/facebook/me/posts/long_numeric_id - Update post (append)

In this case, both > and >> are context dependent, but more flexible. Would this strategy mesh well with the rest of the implementation?

Also, nice work! The project reminds me of Plan 9's /net.