- From: Geoff Arnold <Geoff.Arnold@Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:51:52 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org, Paul Denning <pauld@mitre.org>
On Nov 20, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > > I don't know what Geoff had in mind, but I've heard this complaint a > few times in reference to the HTTP binding using HTTP error codes to > communicate SOAP faults. IMO, that's a feature, not a bug, as one > couldn't use SOAP RESTfully with HTTP without such a relationship > between SOAP and HTTP (i.e. where SOAP is viewed as an HTTP extension, > rather than a layer) I'm more concerned about SOAP over non-HTTP messaging schemes, particularly MOMs. Just to make your head hurt, consider the case of multiple SOAP intermediaries where the complete path may involve HTTP and non-HTTP hops. Today MOM vendors use proprietary encodings to fake an HTTP-like view at each end. That won't do for standards, though. DIME may be dead, but the need still exists.
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