- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:46:32 -0500
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: xmlp-comments@w3.org
I think you've misunderstood Mark. In this area, SOAP 1.2 says two things that are pertinent: 1) [Normative] There's a WebMethod=GET feature. It's intended to be used where both ends of the connection were written explicitly to conform to the Recommendation. Both understand the SOAP processing model (though the "server" end has relatively little special to do.) 2) [NonNormative] Because the wire format in (1) is highly compatible with colloquial uses of HTTP, we note that even >servers not written with knowledge of the SOAP 1.2 recommendation (e.g. old versions of Apache)< can be used to serve content using GET, and that content will typically be consumable by clients that are written to SOAP 1.2. You're commenting on the presence of point (2) and asking if it doesn't duplicate (1). I don't think it does. In fact, it was specifically introduced after (1) was settled, and after we confirmed that the interoperability should be achievable. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> Sent by: xmlp-comments-request@w3.org 03/29/06 06:32 PM To: xmlp-comments@w3.org cc: (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: SOAP 1.2 Adjuncts errata re GET support I just spotted this; "For example, a conventional Web server (i.e. one not written specifically to conform to this specification) might be used to respond to SOAP-initiated HTTP GET's with representations of Content-Type "application/soap+xml". Such interoperation is not a normative feature of this specification." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-soap12-part2-20030624/#httpinterop But of course, the WebMethod feature supports exactly that (unless I'm misunderstanding what "SOAP-initiated" means). I expect this wasn't removed/replaced after the (late) addition of the WebMethod feature. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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