- From: Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 08:41:03 +0000
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- CC: Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>, XML dist app <xml-dist-app@w3c.org>
Mark Baker wrote: > >>SOAPAction is now OPTIONAL per agreement made at the >>September f2f. >> > > Well, I wouldn't exactly call "negotiated", "optional". A SOAP sender > would have to be pretty daft to not support SOAPAction because any > recipient may require its use. > Whilst not wanting to re-open that can of worms, the spec does say: "SOAP Receivers MAY use it as a hint to optimise processing, but SHOULD NOT require its presence in order to operate." which is pretty strong discouragement against requiring it. Regards, Marc. -- Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com> XML Technology Centre, Sun Microsystems.
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