- From: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:12:14 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Grahame Grieve <grahame@kestral.com.au>
- cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Grahame,
it's application/soap+xml (note the added +xml).
Anyway, this MIME type is used in SOAP 1.2 HTTP binding, whereas
the SOAP 1.1 HTTP binding uses text/xml. Therefore SOAP 1.1 nodes
(the prevalent ones now) accept text/xml. The SOAP 1.2 aware
nodes shall accept application/soap+xml.
Best regards,
Jacek Kopecky
Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
http://www.systinet.com/
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Grahame Grieve wrote:
>
> 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 11:12:24 UTC