Re: Proposed text for SOAP Binding doc WRT Async in HTTP/SOAP

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Mark writes: 
> The SOAP 1.2 Addressing 1.0 Feature changes the SOAP 1.1/HTTP binding 
> when "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is not 
> specified for the response endpoint as described in 3.6.1 SOAP 1.1/HTTP.

How does it *change* the SOAP/HTTP binding? In fact, I don't believe that 
it does change the binding
in any way. All the SOAP11/HTTP binding says is how to stick a SOAP 
message into an HTTP request
and HTTP response. It doesn't make any claims about 

I think that there is a misunderstanding about existance of a relationship 
between MEPs at different layers.
In fact, I believe that there is none, nor should there be one. The fact 
that absent WS-A MAPs that a WSDL
R/R MEP and the SOAP R/R MEP are seemingly the same is merely a 
coincidence. I also think that it
was a mistake for the WS-I BP to impose some sort of artificial 
association between a WSDL oneway
operation and a non-existant oneway SOAP MEP such that they disallowed a 
SOAP envelope in the HTTP response
message. WS-RM has an important use case that requires exploiting the HTTP 
response message
to send back a SequenceAcknowledgement. Just because the WSDL says that 
the operation is
a oneway shouldn't preclude a SOAP envelope in the response with the 
SequenceAcknowledgement
information. A WSDL oneway operation only means that the *application* is 
not expecting an 
application-level response in the form of a SOAP message. If the WS-I BP 
permits a fault to be
transmitted/transferred back on the HTTP response, why not some other 
infrastructure-level signal such
as an RM ack or a non-repudiation acknowledgement?

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Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=440
phone: +1 508 377 9295

public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org wrote on 01/19/2006 08:00:54 PM:

> 
> i067 / i068
> 
> 3.5 Use of Anonymous Address in SOAP
> 
> 3.5.1 SOAP 1.1/HTTP
> 
> When "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is specified 
> for the response endpoint then there is no change to the SOAP 1.1/ 
> HTTP binding.
> 
> 3.5.2 SOAP 1.2
> 
> When "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is specified 
> for the response endpoint and the request is the request part of a 
> SOAP request-response MEP [soap 1.2 adjuncts ref], then any response 
> MUST be the response part of the same SOAP request-response MEP [soap 
> 1.2
> adjuncts ref].
> 
> 3.6.1 SOAP 1.1/HTTP
> 
> When "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is not 
> specified for the response endpoint, then the request SHOULD be part 
> of a binding that supports not returning a SOAP envelope in the HTTP 
> response, such as [URI for binding doc].  Any response message SHOULD 
> be sent using a separate connection and using the address value 
> specified by response endpoint. Note that other specifications MAY 
> define special URIs that have other behaviours (similar to the 
> anonymous URI).
> 
> 3.6.2 SOAP 1.2
> 
> When "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is not 
> specified for the response endpoint, then any response SHOULD not be 
> the response part of the same SOAP request-response MEP [soap 1.2 
> adjuncts ref].  For instance, a SOAP 1.2 HTTP binding that supports a 
> one-way MEP could put the reply message in a separate one-way MEP and 
> a separate HTTP request. As in SOAP 1.1/HTTP, note that other 
> specifications MAY define special URIs that have other behaviours 
> (similar to the anonymous URI).
> 
> 4. SOAP 1.1 Addressing 1.0 Extension
> 
> The SOAP 1.1 Addressing 1.0 Extension defines a set of SOAP header 
> blocks and SOAP 1.1 HTTP Binding modification to support the SOAP 1.2 
> Addressing 1.0 Feature described in 2. SOAP 1.2 Addressing 1.0 
> Feature <http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2004/ws/addressing/ 
> ws-addr-soap.html#s12feature>.  This SOAP 1.1 extension is provided 
> for backwards compatibility only.
> 
> Addition to 4.2 Description
> 
> The SOAP 1.2 Addressing 1.0 Feature changes the SOAP 1.1/HTTP binding 
> when "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous" is not 
> specified for the response endpoint as described in 3.6.1 SOAP 1.1/HTTP.
> 
> 
> --
> Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
> 
>