- From: Marc J. Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:43:46 +0100
- To: mario.jeckle@daimlerchrysler.com
- CC: xml-dist-app@w3c.org
mario.jeckle@daimlerchrysler.com wrote: > > But when the SOAPAction as HTTP header field is required to contain only > information which is derivable from the message's content, why not directly > looking into the content ...? > The main reason is that parsing the SOAP envelope is a relatively costly operation compared to looking at the SOAPAction value. So if you are an HTTP intermediary (not a XMLP intermediary) or endpoint then you don't have to launch an XML parser on the contents of the entity body to obtain some (limited) information on the contents of the message. Marc. -- Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com> Tel: +44 1252 423740 Int: x23740
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