- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:13:49 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Mark Baker writes: >> When a SOAP envelope is sent over an application >> protocol, then the "SOAP message" consists of the >> underlying protocol envelope together with the >> SOAP envelope. I think we agree on the general direction, but not in detail. Specifically, SOAP is very clear that a SOAP message has a definition at a level above any particular underlying protocol. In that respect, my example of "Action" in the HTTP binding may have been off base. Note that SOAP carefully abstracts GET/POST into a Web method property that can be applied consistently to any REST-compatible underlying protocol. Note that, at least in principle, a given SOAP message can be relayed through intermediaries over sucessive hops that use different underlying protocols. So, I think we need to decide first whether the abstract SOAP message includes any information (often modeled as properties) other than the XML Envelope Infoset. Having done that, we can agree on a terminology that deals unambiguously with messages as represented on SOAP particular underlying protocol on one hop or another. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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