On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:36:36PM -0400, Markus Hofmann wrote:
Mark Baker wrote:
I agree that multivendor internetworking is critical. I just believe
that it should be achieved by agreeing on the "flow" protocols. For
example, by building a language translator as an HTTP proxy.
This implies that requests AND responses will travel through the "box"
the language translator is running on, which is not really required
since it cares only about the responses. With a callout protocol, you
vector out only the responses, letting the request go through directly.
Really, a callout service only cares about responses? So where in the
architecture, would a service that translated outbound documents go?
Why is a response-based service special?
MB
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