RE: GET, conneg, and a media type parameter from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on 2002-06-18 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from June 2002)

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:24:42 -0700
To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D05A547B7@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

That would be wrong as it would require that SOAP changed HTTP semantics
- a point we have worked hard not to do.

Henrik

>Can the "accept" header be made a mandatory part of SOAP over 
>HTTP messages so that clients can rely upon it? In a sense, it 
>could be used as a simpler, more predictable form of the old 
>SOAPAction...and of course for regular HTTP content negotation.

Received on Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:25:14 UTC