- From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:55:24 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Mark Jones wrote: > With views like this having been very much in the ether for a > long time, it is hard to get the genie back in the bottle. > Since there are no guarantees anyway, I think a reasonable > middle ground for web services would be to have a standard > vocabulary for services to characterize their semantics along > many dimensions, including the strict GET/POST distinction. > This would be useful across bindings other than HTTP as well. I think conflating the issue of why people use POST instead of GET with the general issue of whether doing custom RPC over HTTP is a good idea is a mistake. They're quite separate. The former is not incompatible with the web to the same degree that the latter is. Lots of web developers are using POST willy-nilly and underusing GET, perhaps, but I would speculate that outside of SOAP, not too many spend their time writing RPC interfaces and marshalling parameters. This is a good thing. Scott Cantor cantor.2@osu.edu Office of Info Tech The Ohio State Univ
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