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RE: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v

• To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@a...>
• Subject: RE: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v
• From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:24:55 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...]

<snip/>
 
> Of course.  But I'm saying that the *message* that gets sent to the
> server doesn't include anything that indicates that it is trying to
> purchase a CD.  The only intent in the message is POST.  How do you
> explain that?

Anyone who has ever written a CGI script understand the notion of an
application that can understand the intent of form parameters in the body of
an HTTP POST message. There is a protocol, there, whether or not it has been
standardized, and regardless of the fact that the HTTP server only
understands one intent -- the POST action.

How do you explain that a transaction some how magically occurs even though
the only intent of the message is a POST? Come on, now. This is such a
ludicrous argument I see no point in continuing it.

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