- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:28:14 +0100
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Mark Baker wrote, > Francis McCabe wrote: > > In addition you need two user > > agents. However, you now have a massive coordination and identity > > problem since, at the level of business relationships, the web > > service/user agent pairs are implementation artifacts that obscure > > the fact that there is a single entity behind each. > > How so? One could certainly implement it to give themselves these > problems, but the architecture doesn't require it. The identity issue crops up at your first step, > An order document is transferred over POST, which includes a URI to > which further correspondance should be sent. What's to guarantee that the callback URI mentioned in the POST'ed document really corresponds to the POST'er? In fairness, tho', I don't see that this is any less of a problem for non-RESTful bindings of SOAP to HTTP. Cheers, Miles
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