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Re: Comparison of ICAP and SOAP

2001-07-10 11:50:03
At 09:59 AM 7/10/2001 -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:39:17AM -0700, Michael W. Condry wrote:
> At 09:09 AM 7/10/2001 -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>
> >SOAP intermediaries must be explicitly targetted by the message
> >(using the 'actor' attribute). In this respect, they are completely
> >unlike the OPES model.
>
> The charter says the intermediaries are explicitly addressed. I am
> a bit confused by your comment.

Does the charter state that they will be targetted by an in-message
mechanism (e.g., HTTP response header, arbitrary message content,
etc.)?

No it is not that restricted.



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Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA USA)

Michael W. Condry
Director,  Network Edge Technology