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Re: Web Services - what is the alternative? (was TAG on HLink

• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: Web Services - what is the alternative? (was TAG on HLink)
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:45:07 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E17ub8I-0006mD-00@c...>; from alaric@a... on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:04:53PM +0100
• References: <1C61B9073EBFBD40B45FA90B8265B2DD9DADDC@M...> <E17uUu1-0005cl-00@c...> <20020926113543.G1778@w...> <E17ub8I-0006mD-00@c...>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:04:53PM +0100, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> In what way does the user of fnp://foo.com:AlaricsIM/getUserDetails(POSTAL) 
> need to know what getUserDetails means?

You called it a method name.  That's what method names are for.

> If they issue the call, they get back 
> a response.

What call?  What FNP operation will return the user details when
given that string?

> You could gateway the protocol onto HTTP by mapping that to 
> http://foo.com:<some non-80 port>/AlaricsIM/getUserDetails?type=POSTAL and do 
> a GET to it, and the result would be identical. So where does any knowledge 
> of the semantics of getUserDetails have to come in, huh?

Perhaps I misunderstood.

MB
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Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred)
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.               distobj@a...
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    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: Web Services - what is the alternative? (was TAG on HLink)
    • From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
  • Re: Web Services - what is the alternative? (was TAG on HLink)
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>

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