- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 07:27:32 -0700
- To: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@akamai.com>, <ietf@ietf.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>> 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. > >then add that to the SOAP payload that gets passed in the HTTP >entity body. don't penalize HTTP for SOAP's design deficiencies. It is not for the benefit of SOAP - it is for the benefit of HTTP which is why it is expressed in a manner that is digestible by HTTP. Your argument could equally well be applied to media types so does that mean that you feel the same way about that? Henrik
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