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Re: SOAP and REST at Amazon

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and REST at Amazon
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:51:59 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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> Why do you think Amazon's users prefer REST?

Because they are mostly simple applications that really are just GET -- 
get me this web page, get me this XSLT output (gotta admire Amazon for 
putting themselves out there on that one).  Almost all the POST uses are 
for credit-card transactions where the liability is already limited by 
US law.

Therefore, there is no reason for
	multi-party interactions (defeats their whole intent, which is to 
become the one-stop merchant platform)
	no need for signatures, end-to-end encryption, strong authentication, etc.

In other words, nothing that would really require a SOAP Header.

	/r$
-- 
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology                           http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway   http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview  http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html

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