Re: issue: SOAP requirements

[Bill de hÓra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Sayre wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
>
> > However, speaking personally, I simply can't let the above go 
> > unrefuted; the Web, as a billion or more people use it every day, is 
> > overwhelmingly based on two verbs and works just fine.  HTTP, as 
> > deployed and used today, is pretty well a two-verb protocol. 
>
>
> I agree with your assessment of Joe's argument, your observation that 
> HTTP is a two-verb protocol in practice, and I am for the SOAP wrapper 
> in general, but I also agree with Joe :)
>
> The system in question strips HTTP headers, and therefore doesn't use HTTP.

Surrealism objection! The system we've specified to begin with doesn't 
use HTTP by that criteria. HTTP systems don't put their methods in 
SOAPAction headers.

We can do this without the SOAPAction in short order. Everybody can win, 
unless winning is not enough for some.

cheers
Bill