RE: Web-friendly SOAP

>FTP and Usenet did not have that property until long after they were
>created; URIs gave it to them.  But FTP and NNTP still don't 
>know what a
>URI is, whereas HTTP does.  In a round about way, that's why HTTP is
>special.
>
>I challenge anybody to design an application protocol that knows what a
>URI is (not just one kind/scheme, but *any* URI), that doesn't have
>methods that mean the same as HTTP GET, PUT, POST, etc..

Not to rain on your parade but I think it's stretching it to say that
the only universally applicable application is and forever will be HTTP
:)

Henrik