Re: WSD Requirements: add a requirement about safe and idempotent characteristics
Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:58:38AM +0100, Jean-Jacques Moreau wrote: > Assaf, > > I'd like to point out that SOAP 1.2 also supports HTTP GET, for > exactly the same reasons as HTTP, so as of now there should be no > difference in the way we use SOAP from HTTP (at least at a > certain level ;)). 8-) Of course, there's no PUT binding (or similar), so you can't use SOAP 1.2 with HTTP (properly) yet to expect and effect an idempotent state change. I was working on a definition of a SET method, as a more general version of PUT that would allow the SOAP processing model to be introduced, but haven't worked on it in a while since there's not much point ... that would only introduce more confusion about which method to use! Sigh. 8-( MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis