Re: SOAPAction Proposal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@microsoft.com>
To: "'Martin Gudgin'" <marting@develop.com>; "XML Protocol Comments"
<xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: SOAPAction Proposal


>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work as namespace URI themselves can have a
> '#' in them hence generating an invalid URI.

Good point, this would esp. be an issue in the case of RDF

>
> Think of the SOAPAction value as a sort of content type and how content
> type is used for HTML and other formats. We could have had different
> content type values for each HTML version - including with and without
> tables, scripts, math, etc. etc.
>
> But we didn't because the hint that this was "HTML" was good enough and
> gave the right level of granularity for people who wanted to do an first
> order filtering/inspection of the stuff.

So why don't we use text/xml+soap or some such in Content-Type and ditch
SOAPAction?

>
> Making a high level hint about the content tightly bound to the specific
> instance of a specific message is fundamentally a bad idea.

OK, then let's turn the question on it's head. What *does* go in SOAPAction
and what is it used for? ( I realise there may be multiple answers... )

Gudge

Received on Sunday, 6 May 2001 17:50:14 UTC