Re: Request/response correlation in Email/SMTP binding

 Lars, 
 at least the Email binding proposed by the XMLP WG [1] presently
favors the application approach - correlation can be done using
SOAP headers carrying the necessary ID. Such a solution will also
help when moving at least one direction of the communication from
email to other messaging transports.
 Best regards,

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
                   http://www.systinet.com/

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-soap12-email-20020626



On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Lars von Wedel wrote:

 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I'm interested in wiring SOAP via SMTP/POP/IMAP/... I saw a couple
 > of proposals as well as some messages on the list and the current
 > state of an email binding (let me call it like this) seems to be
 > an ongoing discussion.
 > 
 > My goal is to extend an existing SOAP implementation using HTTP
 > towards sending via SMTP and retrieving via POP/IMAP.
 > 
 > The main question I have at this time is how to establish a
 > correspondence
 > between a requests and its response: I've seen proposals for using
 > the Message-ID and In-reply-to headers, but somewhere else I read
 > that correspondence should be handled on the application level.
 > 
 > What is the (currently) preferred view of handling request/response
 > correlation for SOAP over Email?
 > 
 > Lars
 >

Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2002 05:09:29 UTC