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Re: What does SOAP really add?

• To: martind@n... (Didier PH Martin)
• Subject: Re: What does SOAP really add?
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:48:47 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: ziggy@p... (Adam Turoff), michael.h.kay@n... (Michael Kay), joshuaa@m... ('Joshua Allen'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <020d01c1eae5$d26d18a0$6401a8c0@didierhome> from "Didier PH Martin" at Apr 23, 2002 12:42:12 PM

Didier PH Martin scripsit:

> It seems
> that the basic premises of XSLT for document fetching is that documents are
> static and not dynamically created by processing agent.

This has nothing to do with GET vs. POST.   If you fetch a resource by
GET, there is nothing to prevent the server from composing the entity
body on the spot.  You are merely guaranteed (architecturally speaking)
that no matter how many times you repeat the request, you get the same
*resource* (not to be confused with the same entity body, as in the
case of a time-of-day server); the resource is not side-effected by the
GET operation.

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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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