- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:43:13 -0800
- To: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@akamai.com>
- Cc: "Jean-Jacques Moreau" <moreau@crf.canon.fr>, "Williams Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>This brings another question to mind - will there ever be a >case where a block is targeted at a node in the request, the >node processes the block during the request, and the response >also needs processing by the node, without targeting? > >I can imagine that your challenge/credentials module would be >targeted in both directions. Would there ever be a case where >the response would be implicitly targeted, based on its >correlation with the request? I think so. The reason is that there is only one "from" (i.e. a party responsible for a message) and that party is located at the initial sender. The initial sender may outsource processing to other nodes in the message path but that doesn't change the party responsible for the message in the first place. In other words, each block doesn't have an individual "from" associated with it and when a receiver receives a message it always looks like a single message with a single "from". Any party in the path can of course send additional messages, which allows these parties to be associated with the "from" for the messages they generate. Henrik
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