- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:22:01 -0700
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Feedback on the media type registration... ----- Forwarded message from John Kemp <john.kemp@earthlink.net> ----- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:38:55 -0400 From: John Kemp <john.kemp@earthlink.net> Reply-To: John Kemp <john.kemp@earthlink.net> Subject: SOAP MIME Type To: mnot@pobox.com, distobj@acm.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mr. Baker and Mr. Nottingham, You have submitted an Internet Draft specifying a MIME type for SOAP messages. The Liberty Alliance Project has recently published a draft specification of a "Reverse HTTP Binding for SOAP" (abbrev. PAOS). This specification relies on the existence of a MIME type for SOAP, but it is intended to be used for SOAP 1.1 messages. Future versions of the Liberty specifications will likely normatively refer to SOAP 1.2. We would like to encourage you to read and review the PAOS specification ( http://www.projectliberty.org/specs/draft-lib-arch-paos-v1.0-05.pdf ) and to consider rewording the Internet Draft such that it clearly does not preclude the use of the application/soap+xml MIME type for SOAP 1.1 messages, when used in a binding other than the normal HTTP binding (as defined in the SOAP 1.1 specification). The current text is slightly unclear about the use of the MIME type for SOAP 1.1 messages. Some participants interpreted that it is only intended for SOAP 1.2, whereas according to others the current draft does not tie the MIME type to a particular version. As you certainly know the "nomal" SOAP 1.1 HTTP binding requires the use of the text/xml MIME type. An implementation of PAOS, however, would greatly benefit from being able to detect SOAP messages by means of the value of the Content-Type header. Thank you for any guidance you can provide on this issue, John Kemp ________________________________ John Kemp / john.kemp@earthlink.net (+1) 413.458.9053 / frumioj@AOL Coordinating Editor / Project Liberty -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+uCt2n677NT86+ZsRAgZaAKC1Jg8QMpXaN4Ul+XkA6VJtLhVGxgCgpFMC xXuQwbq6tL8BQogNqQAofm0= =71up -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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