Re: TAP's use of SOAP: HTTP GET or PUT?

> 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