text/xml vs. application/soap

• From: Grahame Grieve <grahame@kestral.com.au>
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:54:39 +1000
• To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
• Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020719004920.01d91378@www.kestral.com.au>

The current specification says that the MimeType for SOAP/HTTP should
be application/soap

I haven't yet found a production SOAP service that uses application/soap,
they all use text/xml. Many barf, often with no explanation, when the
mime type is application/soap (I've just been playing with the
Sun Forte Soap kit on Tomcat and it does - not sure whether mine
was a current version)

I'm interested in opinions here - what should a SOAP library
do about this? Is there any way to tell whether a service
expects text/xml or application/soap

ta

Grahame

Received on Thursday, 18 July 2002 11:04:32 UTC