- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:49:50 -0700
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Clearly there is not consensus in the community on this issue. Many people have spoken up about this issue and I observe that many of the people (not messages) have been in dissent of the "HTTP GET for all safe/idempotent methods" side. Further, the dissenters, such as members the HTTP WG and QA WGs, have brought up a significant new information and history. At least Stuart made an attempt to reach a compromise position, but I don't think that any of the "GET=Safe" people would accept that position. One thing that strikes me the most is that I have never seen a case of it been shown that exclusive use of POST for SOAP is harmful, or can somehow be done better with GET. I've heard examples given, but they are always browser-based examples, where humans do some kind of refresh. And I think Roy's argument, which seems to me the cogent, is that the whole use of SOAP makes GET/POST irrelevent because the "method" is inside the message. The point being, is there certainly isn't consensus in the community on this issue, and issuing a finding that attempts to declare consensus would be premature at best and potentially harmful. Cheers, Dave
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