Date:Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:03:42 -0500
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From:"LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:Re: SOAPAction
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:39 AM
>
> You MUST waste bandwidth and server processing time by sending an
> irrelevant header with a string that is going to be ignored.
Let's get down off our soapboxes here! Nobody blinked twice when we said
that "version=1.1" is mandatory or that "operation=searchRetrieve" should be
added to searches. Every protocol specifies stuff that it thinks is
"right", even if not needed or used immediately.
Get over it and stick it in.
> What do the toolkits do currently? Fault if not present?
Nope. Axis was perfectly content to pass me a null when I asked for the
SOAPAction. A mandatory feature not enforced by this toolkit. But I'm sure
I have mandatories that I don't enforce. Anyone else?
> So we should just remain silent about SOAPAction.
Sorry. Down this path comes profiles of SRW/U that ignore version too.
Ralph