- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:03:47 -0400
- To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:59:44AM -0600, Champion, Mike wrote: > I'm a bit mystified as to the problem here. Is this the old "Thou Shalt Not > Tunnel HTTP" issue from XMLP and WSA once again? No no, not at all. It's just "How should Web-like Web services best be defined in WSDL?". > My (personal) take is: > > - WSDL must be rich enough to describe HTTP's interface (REST, more or > less). I don't think this is or has ever been an issue. > > - WSDL 1.2 must be rich enough to describe the RESTful uses of SOAP > discussed at length just over a year ago in XMLP. Is that the issue on the > table here? Yes. > - Tunneling Happens. SOAP and WSDL will be used in conjunction with HTTP in > ways that RESTifarians find distasteful, and they just need to get out the > Pepto-Bismol and deal with that hard fact :-) Right. My proposal explicitly supports tunneling; it's the default mode, in fact. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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