- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:52:31 -0400
- To: Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
- Cc: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Also unofficially, my analysis substantially agrees with Anish's. The limitation is, of course, in the particular HTTP binding. It would be quite possible in principle to write a specification for a different HTTP binding that used the existing MEP in the manner that you propose. I think you might be able to write it so that client enabled for the new bindings would also interop with the old (I.e. depending dynamically on whether the full response came back immediately as the existing binding requires.) Whether such an additional binding would represent an appropriate use of HTTP POST semantics is a separate question, but from SOAP's point of view I think it would be a new binding in any case...merely because the existing binding does not enable the behavior you desire. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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