Re: Issue 133: SOAP and Web Architecture: Draft sentences for HTTP bi nding preamble. from Paul Prescod on 2002-02-23 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from February 2002)

From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:04:16 -0800
To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C76EA90.AC1C30A9@prescod.net>

Andrew Layman wrote:
> 
> SOAP does offer a way: Take a SOAP message that is somehow known to be
> idempotent, URL-encode the XML and then send it via HTTP GET.

That is not an option according to the SOAP HTTP binding.

There is no question that there are ways of using SOAP in a manner that
is compatible with web architecure. We all agree on that. The question
is whether the *default SOAP binding* should be completely compatible
with web architecture or not.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Friday, 22 February 2002 20:07:28 UTC