{"id":1521,"date":"2006-04-06T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2006\/04\/06\/whats-the-point\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T20:33:00","slug":"whats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/04\/whats-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/images\/platypus.jpg\">\n\n<p>Mark asks,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnot.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/soap_http\">what&#8217;s the point<\/a>\nof trying to get SOAP proponents to make better use of HTTP?<\/p>\n\n<p>I hold out no hope for SOAP, but I do hold out hope that its\npromoters will eventually understand and embrace HTTP as an\napplication protocol, and in doing so, the Web as a first class\ndistributed computing infrastructure.  And I figure the best way\nto facilitate that is to participate constructively (as best I\ncan, given my not-quite-thick-enough-for-the-job skin 8-).<\/p>\n\n<p>Most importantly perhaps, for me personally, these past six+ years\nof explaining this stuff has forced me to work out a lot of kinks in\nmy own understanding of the Web (in combination with actually\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idokorro.com\">building<\/a>\nthe\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanometrics.ca\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=123&amp;Itemid=103\">systems<\/a>\nI was describing, of course).<\/p>\n\n<p>Who was it that said that the best way to learn something is to\nexplain it to somebody else?<p>\n\n<p>Tags:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/soap\">soap<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/http\">http<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/rest\">rest<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/web\">web<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/webservices\">webservices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark asks, what&#8217;s the point of trying to get SOAP proponents to make better use of HTTP? I hold out no hope for SOAP, but I do hold out hope that its promoters will eventually understand and embrace HTTP as an application protocol, and in doing so, the Web as a first class distributed computing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,26],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}