- From: Dick Brooks <dick@8760.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:32:53 -0500
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: "Hugo Haas" <hugo@w3.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>POST is designed to allow a uniform method to cover the following functions: > - Annotation of existing resources; > > - Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, > or similar group of articles; > > - Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a > form, to a data-handling process; > > - Extending a database through an append operation. > >I've seen HTML forms used for all four. Various segments of the Energy industry have standardized on HTTP POST for the reliable, secure exchange of signed/encrypted business data (X12, XML, etc.), following RFC 2388 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt). Metadata (routing, identification, etc.) is represented in form elements that accompany the business data. This approach is used for both automated, unattended agent based processing and interactive browser based interactions for SME's. Dick Brooks Co-chair, Electronic Delivery Mechanism Committee, Gas Industry Standards Board (http://www.gisb.org) Chairman, Internet Data Transport Committee, Utility Industry Group (http://www.uig.org)
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