- From: Laird Nelson <ljnelson@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT)
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
--- Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com> wrote: > IS there a fundamental difference between sending a soap message and > sending form data? If so, what is it? I think that the original objection stemmed from the fact that POST was conceived to augment or update the object at the URI that's being posted to (e.g. add to a bulletin board, put new stuff into a database, cause a process to start, etc.). Form data, submitted via POST, was thought to be the usual way in which you'd update an object, i.e. it was entirely in keeping with the intended POST semantics. (For completeness: GET was to be for retrieving things, static or dynamic; PUT was to be for adding a new object.) I'm not sure (either) that this is always true of some SOAP commands--e.g. some SOAP requests are decidedly more give-me-something-oriented than update-this-resource-please-oriented. New to the list; be gentle. Apologies as well for the junk that Yahoo appends to my message. :-( Cheers, Laird (Nelson, not Popkin--egad, two Lairds in one place!) ===== -- ljnelson94@alumni.amherst.edu ljnelson@yahoo.com Good, cheap, fast: pick two. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
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