- From: Mark A. Jones <jones@research.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:58:40 -0400
- To: Frank DeRose <frankd@tibco.com>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Frank, Isn't it possible that there will be intermediaries in the return path of a SOAP RPC call that may want to insert headers or otherwise process the return message? If we don't always return a valid message, this would be a problem for behavior 1. Frank DeRose wrote: > I have been asked by the WG to seed discussion on issue 16 from the > issues list [1]. > > Bryan Murray, the author of issue 16, asserts that Section 7.1 of the > SOAP spec [2] does not explicitly state how a method with a void > return type and no out parameters should be mapped onto the SOAP > protocol. Bryan conceives of four possible behaviors: > > 1. return HTTP 204 No Response > 2. return an empty SOAP Envelope > 3. return an empty SOAP Body > 4. return an empty SOAP method response > -- Mark A. Jones AT&T Labs - Research Shannon Laboratory Room A201 180 Park Ave. Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 email: jones@research.att.com phone: (973) 360-8326 fax: (973) 360-8970
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