- From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:05:22 +0200
- To: Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
- CC: Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>, W3C Public Archive <www-archive@w3.org>, Nilo Mitra <EUSNILM@am1.ericsson.se>, Noah Mendelson <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
So Henrik seems to be saying this is out of scope and should be defined by the corresponding routing/forwarding feature only, which sounds fine. Do we want some additional text saying just that or is the spec ok as is? Jean-Jacques. Marc Hadley wrote: > >>> 289: What does an intermediary do when it receives a fault? Is the > >>> fault guaranteed to be passed on to the original sender ( > >> or previous > >>> intermediary)? > >>> > >> > >> Since we don't indicate what happens when faults are > >> generated in the first place, I think the most we can say is > >> that intermediaries MAY forward fault messages. > >> > >> However, I am wondering whether this is not raising a deeper > >> issue, which is how intermediaries forward response messages. > >> I think sections 2.7.* are written from the POV of request > >> messages; do they cover adequately response messages? > > > > Good question. What do the other editors think? > > > I think this is a deeper issue. Does the behaviour differ depending > on whether the fault is due to something the intermediary did or a > prior node in the message path ? Is there a difference between a > request and response message as far as intermediaries are > concerned ? How would an intermediary determine the difference ? > > Marc. Henrik wrote: > >However, I am wondering whether this is not raising a deeper > >issue, which is how intermediaries forward response messages. > >I think sections 2.7.* are written from the POV of request > >messages; do they cover adequately response messages? > > I think so: As we don't say anything about how the forwarding feature is > defined for any SOAP messages other than stating that it is a feature, > this would also apply to SOAP faults--they are just a certain type of > SOAP messages. >
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