RE: EDI over http?

[Rik Drummond <drummond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So do you have strong feeling about this subject?

HTTP is not a server to server protocol in the way that the POST command is being used in some EDI implementations either.  

IMAP4 allows submission and retrieval of messages/transactions between a client and a server...... so a two way exchange between two companies will look like this.


	Company1		 		Company 2
	-----------------				------------------
EDI Translator--imap4 client    ------->  	imap4 server--EDI Translator
EDI Translator--imap4 server   <------- 	Imap4 client-- EDI Translator

what is wrong with that?

Later, Rik

-----Original Message-----
From:	Matthew James Gering [SMTP:mgering@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Thursday, July 03, 1997 12:02 AM
To:	ietf-ediint@xxxxxxx
Subject:	Fw: EDI over http?


 AFIAK IMAP is most definitely not designed for server-to-server transfer
--
 SMTP yes, IMAP no. Sure your EDI translator might not be the same machine
 as your EDI messanger, and you may connect the two via IMAP4, but you will
 not use IMAP4 between yourself and your trading partners.
 
 	Matt
 
 > How about IMAP4 for the protocol for real-time/ interactive EDI instead
 of HTTP or SMTP? 
 > 
 > Do we need to bone up on what IMAP4 is before saying yes or know.