Re: SOAP intermediary - issue 70 (cont'd)

+1

Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com wrote:

> Jean-Jacques Moreau writes:
> 
> 
>>>BTW, I do not think "forwarding" is a 
>>>direct consequence of "processing". The
>>>intermediary may decide not to process 
>>>the message, and still do forwarding.
>>>
> 
> I don't think so.  The spec says you must assume the role of "next" if you 
> are a node, including an intermediary node.  If there is a mustUnderstand 
> to next you MUST process it.  Even doing those checks is "processing" in 
> the terminology of chapter 2.  So, I think every SOAP node MUST process 
> each message.  It is not necessarily required to assume any roles, other 
> than next, that would result in its actually processing any particular 
> headers, but it must at least follow the chapter 2 rules. 
> 
> One can imagine software that would do other useful things with SOAP 
> messages, but such behavior is not covered by the SOAP spec, I think, just 
> as HTTP doesn't explicitly say that you can buffer messages on disk if you 
> like.  I don't think we should get into the business of nodes that don't 
> process messages.  IMO, every node, including intermediaries,  should 
> follow the rules in chapter 2, which is what it means to "process" a 
> message.
> 
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Received on Tuesday, 16 October 2001 17:43:44 UTC