- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 21:38:28 -0400
- To: "'xml-dist-app@w3.org'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Friday 05 July 2002 11:15 pm, Amelia A. Lewis wrote: > Keep in mind, too, that ten and fifteen years ago there were vocal > opponents of ftp-to-email gateways and of MIME. "SMTP is a *message* > protocol. If you want to transfer files, use a *file* *transfer* protocol. > " The glorification of HTTP as the highest possible layer in the stack > seems to reflect those attitudes. Funny.... I used the gatekeeper ftp to email gateway to very good effect to circumvent firewall limitations 10 years ago. I never thought of that as equivalent to SOAP over HTTP before. I can see the analogy though.
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