- From: Marc Hadley <marc@hadleynet.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:36:42 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Martin Gudgin <marting@develop.com>
- cc: XML Protocol Comments <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Martin Gudgin wrote: > Open questions/issues... > > Do XP Intermediaries also sit between the sender of the response and the > ultimate receiver of that response? And hence also process the response > message assuming one exists. > One of the uses for an XP intermediary discussed in [1] is to act as an inter-transport router (e.g. SMTP<-->HTTP). In this case the same intermediary (or one with an equivalent inverse function) would need to be interposed for both request and response. > If the answer to the above question is 'Yes' is the set of intermediaries > the same for both the request and response message? > A further question relates to the ordering of intermediaries: is it reversed for responses ? i.e. if we have three intermediaries A, B and C and the request path is ->A->B->C->, is the response path ->C->B->A ? Regards, Marc. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Feb/0021.html
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