{"id":455,"date":"2004-09-16T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/09\/16\/ws-transfer-the-ws-stack-grabs-a-clue-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:11:00","slug":"ws-transfer-the-ws-stack-grabs-a-clue-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/09\/ws-transfer-the-ws-stack-grabs-a-clue-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"WS-Transfer; the WS-* stack grabs a clue, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but the Web services stack finally\ncatches up to where the Web was 15 years ago, and where email was 20\nyears before that;\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.systinet.com\/papers\/specifications\/WS-Transfer.pdf\">exchanging documents<\/a>\nover the Internet.  Happy days! &lt;groan\/&gt;<\/p>\n\n<p>Facetiousness aside though, it&#8217;s unfortunate that the layering is\nstill so butchered; WS-Transfer just reinvents HTTP on top of SOAP on\ntop of HTTP.  And for what exactly?  They could have just reused\nHTTP&#8217;s methods which are already <em>outside<\/em> the envelope, the way most\npeople use application protocols, and still get all the goodness of SOAP.  Who\nthe heck wants to try to bootstrap a whole new Web when the one we&#8217;ve got is\ndoing just fine, thank-you-very-much?<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also curious that POST is missing, yet CREATE has been added.\nThis seems an obvious attempt to equate the uniform interface with CRUD,\nbut it&#8217;s unclear whether that&#8217;s to try to restrict the range of\npossible applications WS-Transfer could be used for, or because the\nauthors honestly thought nothing was being lost with this omission?\nKnowing many of the authors, I bet the latter, but who knows &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>As interesting as this is to see though, I don&#8217;t see anybody choosing\nto use it over vanilla HTTP or RESTful SOAP+HTTP.  I&#8217;d be interested in\nanybody&#8217;s thoughts who disagreed with me on that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but the Web services stack finally catches up to where the Web was 15 years ago, and where email was 20 years before that; exchanging documents over the Internet. Happy days! &lt;groan\/&gt; Facetiousness aside though, it&#8217;s unfortunate that the layering is still so butchered; WS-Transfer just reinvents HTTP on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}