{"id":575,"date":"2004-11-12T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/11\/12\/the-irony-of-protocol-independence\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T20:33:00","slug":"the-irony-of-protocol-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/11\/the-irony-of-protocol-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"The irony of protocol independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s protocol independence theme month!<\/p>\n\n<p>A\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/xml-dist-app\/2004Nov\/thread.html#3\">gem of an exchange<\/a>\nbetween the WSD and XMLP WGs.<\/p>\n\n<p>It turns out that WSD wanted to be able to send a SOAP request via HTTP,\nbut get the response back on some other channel.  Fortunately, HTTP supports\nthe 202 response code which permits the server to indicate exactly that.\nBut unfortunately, the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/soap12-part2\/#soapinhttp\">default SOAP 1.2 HTTP binding<\/a>\nexplicitly does <em>not<\/em> support 202.  It actually\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2001\/WD-soap12-part2-20011217\/#NFDC\">used to<\/a>,\nbut the protocol-independence promoters had it removed because they\nfeared, IIRC, that too much of HTTP was exposed to the application.<\/p>\n\n<p>That made my week. 8-)<\/p>\n\n<p>P.S. I hope to see lots of people out at XML 2004 next week.  I drive down tomorrow.\nIt&#8217;ll be my third road trip to D.C. in as many years; about 1000 kms each way, but a\npleasure in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2001\/04\/Z8\/\">ride<\/a> (though not\nas nice as a trip to Boston through Vermont and New Hampshire!).  I&#8217;ll\nbe announcing what I&#8217;ve been up to for the past little while too, with my latest\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmlconference.org\/xmlusa\/2004\/sponsors.html#justsystem\">client<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s protocol independence theme month! A gem of an exchange between the WSD and XMLP WGs. It turns out that WSD wanted to be able to send a SOAP request via HTTP, but get the response back on some other channel. Fortunately, HTTP supports the 202 response code which permits the server to indicate [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,40],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}