Re: Response envelope optional vs. response optional

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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Anish,

On 12/21/05, Anish Karmarkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding about SOAP MEP is that: it talks about SOAP messages. A
> SOAP req-res MEP consists of one SOAP req and one SOAP res. In the case
> of 202/204, there is no SOAP response although there is HTTP response.

An HTTP response is a SOAP response.

> Hence my discomfort about the name (SOAP req-res MEP with no SOAP res).
> Alternately, specifying how the SOAP response is sent over a different
> HTTP connection is not going into higher-level messaging pattern. It
> would be merely specifying how the response part of the req-res SOAP MEP
> is sent (I'm not sure if this is the best way to go, but I don't think
> it is going into higher-level MEPs).

I'd suggest that any other "response" would be handled as part of a
separate message exchange.

Mark.
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