- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:51:08 -0400
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-tag@w3.org
Hi Stuart, On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:09:46AM +0100, Williams, Stuart wrote: > Just a thought anyway... a 'null' SOAP request message as the 'trigger' to > use HTTP GET rather than some other 'magical' incantation. What do you > think? Others? Mark B? Noah's example was a good one to help illustrate the different ways in which one can think of using SOAP, especially as it relates to making use of the semantics of application protocols. But IMO, trying to build something HTTP-like on top of SOAP, which in turn will often be on top of HTTP, is quite impractical and unnecessary. It's true that HTTP's extensibility and processing models aren't as rich as SOAP's, but also IMO, these small improvements are no where near enough to justify the huge cost of deploying such a solution. I think that if SOAP has a future on the Web (as opposed to on the Internet), it will be with the chameleon use where both SOAP and HTTP are used by developers at the same time (though an EDI-like use of SOAP over POST is fine, it's a niche). But I've yet to see a SOAP library that supports such a use. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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