RE: My take at expressing SOAP HTTP POST binding requests in URI Space

> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Roy T. Fielding
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:20 AM
> To: Mark Baker
> Cc: David Orchard; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: My take at expressing SOAP HTTP POST binding requests in
> URI Space
>
>
> > Comment; I think that mapping SOAP headers to HTTP headers would be a
> > better idea than mapping them to query parameters in the URI.
>
> There would be no benefit obtained by moving the essential elements
> of identification from the HTTP request-URI to the HTTP header fields.
> In fact, any attempt to do so (including DAV versioning) is doomed
> to failure in the long run because it creates a separate dimension
> of identification that needs its own access control, etc.

To clarify: DAV versioning (RFC3253) assigns propers URI to versions and
version history resources. Roy is referring to a specific feature, the LABEL
HTTP header, which basically makes a version a variant of the
version-controlled resource, and this feature is currently questioned.