Re: Content-free Header and Body elements

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 10:03 US/Eastern, Rich Salz wrote:

> Marc Hadley wrote:
>> One solution to this would be to leave part 1 unchanged and update 
>> the SOAP message normalization note[1], adding removal of empty 
>> Header elements to the algorithm.
>
> That removes the ambiguity for signing, but if the original message 
> but it doesn't allow anyone to add a header if the original message 
> has no Header EII, as Gudge pointed out.  His belief is that this is 
> not the intent.
>
Ah, yes I missed that. I suppose one *could* interpret rule #1 that way 
so some clarification text would be useful. An additional sentence in 
rule #3 would probably suffice:

3. Element information items for additional header blocks MAY be added 
to the [children] property of the SOAP Header element information item 
as detailed in 2.7.2 SOAP Forwarding Intermediaries. In this case, a 
SOAP Header element information item MAY be added if not already 
present.

Marc.

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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.

Received on Friday, 16 May 2003 10:42:44 UTC