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John Cowan wrote: > >... > > I don't believe there's any problem with using POST for idempotent > queries, only in using GET for non-idempotent ones. Well in general, it disables caching, even when caching makes sense. It makes firewalling harder because the security admin has less information about what is being done. A reasonable policy for a machine that is only supposed to serve information might be to allow GETs but restrict POSTs. > ... As for success > and failure, that's a matter of level. When my application returns > a "search failed" message to the client, the HTTP code is 200. SOAP is not an application. Actually, it seems like the most recent SOAP spec does as I prefer and does map SOAP errors to HTTP errors. So that complaint is no longer accurate. Paul Prescod
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