RE: SOAP spec.: HTTP binding

Hi Kevin,

Before starting another major thread on this subject, you might want to
have a look at [1]. Believe me, this has been discussed a lot but the
major reason for doing it the way SOAP specifies is to not break HTTP.

Btw, some people on this list responded [2] to [1] - you might want to
read this too.

[1] http://www.normos.org/ietf/draft/draft-moore-using-http-01.txt
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2000Dec/0178.html

Henrik

> This doesn't seem right.  It also causes problems for people 
> wishing to 
> write simple soap clients.  Many HTTP APIs handle HTTP errors very
> differently
> than standard returns.  Depending upon the API, it is not 
> always possible to
> 
> read the body of an error response.  Further, in my opinion, 
> HTTP errors
> should be reserved for actual HTTP server errors, not SOAP 
> request errors.
> This type of functional overloading, although well intentioned, is not
> appropriate.