RE: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:david.orchard@bea.com] 
> 
> Why is there a need for reliable http?  I believe that 
> reliability should be layered on top of HTTP, and SOAP is a 
> good place to do it.
> 
> Imagine the multi-hop case, and you can immediately see why 
> the higher layer needs end-to-end reliability.

I agree. Has anybody done a message sequence diagram showing the http
messages 
that would flow in:
a) multi-hope situation
b) client initiated situation (the 'request' is in the response to a client
request)