RE: GET, conneg, and a media type parameter

• From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
• Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:14:12 -0700
• To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D07EDF1FB@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

>I'm just updating the media type registration with Henrik's comments,
>but before I send that out, I wanted to ask what the group thought
>about adding a SOAP body namespace URI as an optional parameter on
>the media type, for use with content negotiation on a GET?

If we were going to extend the HTTP conneg algorithm to include
namespaces then I think it should be done in a more general manner and
not as a one-of SOAP specific solution. The SOAP media type doesn't seem
like the proper place.

Henrik

Received on Monday, 17 June 2002 20:14:49 UTC