RE: SOAPAction Proposal from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on 2001-09-04 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from September 2001)

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:58:53 -0700
To: "Doug Davis" <dug@us.ibm.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D04A225A1@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

I generally like this direction in order to move forward and agree with
the discussion that we have to provide some guidance as to what we mean
by "intent".

Henrik

>  SOAP no longer requires the SOAPAction HTTP header.  While the
>  definition of, or a Web services requirement of a SOAPAction header,
>  as with any application-defined HTTP header, is left as an
>  implementation choice and is outside the scope of this specification,
>  a suggested usage of the SOAPAction header is that it can be used
>  to indicate the "intent" of the XMLP/SOAP HTTP request.

Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2001 11:59:26 UTC