WS-Transfer - Are We Talking HTTP Over XML Over HTTP?

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I may be daft, but after reading the comments on WS-Transfer submission to the W3C, I get the feeling that WS-Transfer feels... I dunno, wrong? I know SOAP is transport independant, but a vast majority of the SOAP calls are made over HTTP, so are we talking HTTP over XML/SOAP over HTTP?

WS-Transfer is about doing resource manipulation, using HTTP-like verbs such as GET, PUT, DELETE and such. Feels like a more complex REST style of managing resources to me.

2 Comments

I think the idea is about having a protocol independent version of http like functionality over soap.

Kannan Kalyanaraman - Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:39:00 AM

Yes, I know SOAP is transport protocol independant, but still it feels pretty weird to run HTTP like commands on SOAP on HTTP again.

Johan - Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:48:00 AM

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