RE: What is a SOAP message; a proposed WSA view

> IMO, an HTTP PUT and an HTTP POST mean very different things. 

In HTTP, but of course not all agree that HTTP+SOAP has the same
application semantics as HTTP carrying documents.

> A PUT is an
> instruction to store the contents of the PUT in a file. A POST is an
> instruction to take the contents of the POST and process it, 
> and return a
> response. Sending a SOAP message using POST makes sense. 
> Sending a SOAP
> message using PUT seems odd -- it's unlikely that you'd mean 
> to store a 
> SOAP message on a server rather than to process it.

Well, what if I'm using synchronous SOAP+HTTP to deliver messages to a
disk-backed message queue?  Should I use an HTTP-PUT then, since the
proximate destination is "storing to disk", to be followed, at a later
time, by processing? 


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Received on Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:07:10 UTC