- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:18:15 -0700
- To: "Jones, Matthew" <MJones@NetSilicon.com>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:05:01PM -0400, Jones, Matthew wrote: > I have a few questions about the 1.2 draft: > > 1. There is discussion about SOAP over HTTP, but it doesn't specify > what version of HTTP is expected although all references are to HTTP > 1.1. Is there a requirement or expectation of version 1.1. I think > that some of the processing (for an implementation) can be simplified if > only HTTP 1.1 was supported. HTTP/1.1 is a superset of HTTP/1.0; if you support HTTP/1.1, you must support interacting with 1.0 clients and servers. While it would be considerably simpler to implement only chunked encoding for persistence (for example), content-length is an equally valid means of persistence in 1.1, and must be supported. Of course, you could define a HTTP/1.1-with-only-chunked-encoding binding and use a port other than 80, but then everyone implmenting that would most likely have to either build their own HTTP stacks, or modify the ones in use to assure that content-length isn't used. You also wouldn't be able to use the current Web infrastructure too well (most HTTP intermediaries are still HTTP/1.0, as 1.1 is more difficult for them to suppor than it is for user-agents and origin servers). Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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