RE: SOAP/XML Protocol and filtering, etc.

>> The meaning of SOAPAction is not to say that "this is a stockquote 
>> service" but to say that "I am sending you a SOAP message of a type 
>> that is part of a stock quote service".
>
>okay, fine.  but why bother exposing this in the request header at all?

Because it can be hard to deduce from the message - especially as
messages may be composed of many pieces from other places using SOAP's
modular extensibility mechanism (headers). In a sense this is similar to
that a media type can be hard to guess based on the entity alone. 

Henrik

Received on Monday, 7 May 2001 22:09:14 UTC