Re: [dist-obj] HTTP methods explained

• To: eugene@datapower.com (Eugene Kuznetsov)
• Subject: Re: [dist-obj] HTTP methods explained
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
• Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
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> > IMAP is an application protocol too, but I've never seen anybody
> > suggesting using it to do RPC.
> 
> I can't resist --  they *are* suggesting using SMTP as SOAP/XMLP
> transport, so I don't think IMAP is far behind. ;-)

For sure, but that doesn't mean doing RPC over it.  SOAP can be
bound to application protocols such that the application semantics
of those protocols are reused.  i.e. SOAP over IMAP would be
still be used for email folder synchronization, not for RPC.

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