RE: Suggestion on application/soap{+xml} media type attribute

• From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
• Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:37:39 -0800
• To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
• Cc: "XML dist app" <xml-dist-app@w3c.org>
• Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D05A83CB1@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

>I support this proposal.

Super

>> If we go this way we can in fact GET RID OF SOAPAction HTTP header 
>> field altogether and make the link between the media type explicit 
>> hence avoiding some of the confusion.
>
>There's other issues that we'd have to resolve before removing 
>SOAPAction.  For example, do we want to also allow 
>application/xml (as defined in RFC 3023) to be used?  I think 
>we do, so some thought has to go into that.

Good question - attributes can or course not be carried over. Hmm, do we
want to go there? 

Henrik

Received on Monday, 3 December 2001 01:38:54 UTC