Re: Summing up on visibility(?)

Mark Baker wrote,
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:48:19PM +0000, Miles Sabin wrote:
> > If the question is simply "Is information in HTTP headers more
> > easily accessible to intermediaries than information in XML request
> > entities?", then my answer is: Yes, obviously (so long as those
> > intermediaries aren't already parsing the entities anyway).
>
> Not just headers, the whole PDU; request line, headers, body.  But
> sure, HTTP headers are more visible to HTTP intermediaries than SOAP
> headers, for obvious reasons.  But ignoring that issue, do you see
> any improved visibility there?

Oh, I see. You mean visibility in the sense of end to end semantics 
being accessible to otherwise oblivious intermediaries.

I can't respond to that question without reopening the binding thread.

Cheers,


Miles