Re: text/xml for SOAP is incorrect

At 10:45 AM 9/20/2001 -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>Anything sent by HTTP is transformable, unless it has a
>'no-transform' Cache-Control header associated.

And we cannot change this fact with Content-type.

>Additionally, it is an unfortunate truth that intermediaries may not
>honor no-transform, because the access provicer's policy is that the
>transformation is not optional.

And we cannot change this fact with Content-type either.

>application/xml implies that it may be XHTML.

But application/xml does not imply that it is XHTML either.

As far as your intermediaries are concerned what is wrong
with "SOAP messages SHOULD set Cache-Control to "no-transform"?

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