- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@akamai.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:57:02 -0700
- To: Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
- Cc: XML Distributed Applications List <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:22:20PM +0100, Marc Hadley wrote: > The candidate HTTP binding contains the following text: Just to clarify, it isn't 'the' candidate. > "correlation - HTTP provides implicit corellation between its request > and response messages; SOAP applications may choose to infer corellation > between the SOAP envelope transfered by the HTTP request and the SOAP > envelope returned with the associated HTTP response." > > I'm not sure that this is really rigorous enough to allow interop. What > if the SOAP receiver (HTTP server) decides not to infer correlation and > the SOAP sender (HTTP client) decides to infer correlation. Unless we > have a means to allow the client and server to agree on on whether the > response is correlated to the request then we have to specify it one way > or the other - no ? Well, this information certainly has to be somewhere; I don't know if it should be in as 'low' a place as the binding definition, though. There is a large amount of shared state between SOAP endpoints; the basics should be reflected in the (relatively) unchanging specifications; IMHO more application-specific things such as communication-channel attributes need to be agreed upon by some other mechanism (such as WSDL). -- Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA USA)
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