- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:59:58 -0400
- To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Cc: distobj@acm.org, joshuaa@microsoft.com, skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org
OK. thanks. that is very helfpul (I.e. Henrik's explanation of PUT.) Obviously I am not expert in nuances of HTTP, and very much appreciate the tutorial from those who are. I must say that, while I am sure that your are absolutely right in what you say about HTTP and PUT, it seems somewhat architecturally strange to me. My impression was that resources could only be known through representations, so it seems odd to me that with PUT one asserts the actual state of the resource. Nonetheless, whether it suits my taste or not, it is certainly not the point of our current SOAP exercise to quibble with current HTTP practice. Since I presume that your explanation accurately describes how PUT is viewed in practice, I withdraw my suggestion to use PUT with SOAP. I had made the suggestion only because I had presumed it represented a more appropriate use of HTTP in certain cases; you have convinced me that, for better or worse, it would not be. Many thanks for the clear explanation! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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