- From: Rob McCool <robm@robm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:35:54 -0800
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-tap@w3.org, em@w3.org, connolly@w3.org, eric@w3.org
> Does TAP's use of SOAP for query make use of the (cachable, URI-linkable > etc) HTTP GET method, or is it over HTTP POST? > > http://tap.stanford.edu/tap/getdatadetails.html left me unsure. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/#soapinhttp documents SOAP 1.2's HTTP > binding, and http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/#WebMethodFeature > the oddly named 'SOAP Web Method Feature', which as I understand it is > SOAP's way of allowing SOAP services with GET-like semantics to use > HTTP's GET method. > > Maybe I should be asking two questions: TAP's GetData in the abstract, > vs the Stanford implementation of it...? By default the TAP toolkit uses POST because we throw around a lot of hierarchical queries which are difficult to express in a flat name=value format like HTTP GET, but the servers support GET syntax, c.f. http://tap.stanford.edu/data/?type=tap:Actor&term=Tom+Hanks&prop=Identify http://panic.stanford.edu/browse?type=tap:Politician&term=Tony+Blair
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