- From: Mark Baker <mbaker@idokorro.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:02:42 -0400
- To: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
If I send "hello" with HTTP PUT, I am requesting that the string be stored at the URI. If I send "hello" with HTTP POST, I am requesting that the processor identified by the URI to which I'm POSTing, process that string. Those HTTP messages have *exactly* the same body, yet they mean *very* different things. QED. Acknowledging I'm right on this doesn't necessarily mean you have to abandon Web services, of course (as much as I'd recommend doing so 8-). I think it would be quite reasonable for the arch doc to just say something like this as a result; "Though envelopes sent over application protocols differ in meaning depending upon which application protocol and method is used, the WSA prescribes that application protocols shall be treated as if they were transport protocols. This has the following advantages and disadvantages; [...]" Sound good? MB
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