- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:49:23 -0500 (EST)
- To: highland.m.mountain@intel.com (Mountain, Highland M)
- Cc: PMAppleton@bemis.com ('Appleton Pete M'), highland.m.mountain@intel.com (Mountain Highland M), xml-dist-app@w3.org
Pete wrote; > Pete Appleton wrote: > > How can an HTTP proxy track your purchasing habits? Shouldn't this be a > SOAP intermediary? If an HTTP proxy is tracking, this implies that the > message contents have semantic meaning to it (the HTTP proxy), which implies > that it is more than just an HTTP proxy. Nope. A purchasing agent can be built with just HTTP and a handful of assertions, either in RDF or with HTTP headers. You're still seeing HTTP as a transport protocol. It isn't. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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