Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:07:23 -0500
From: "David Fischer" <>
Doesn't zero payloads mean SOAP 1.1 rather than SOAP w/ Attachments since there
are no attachments?
Well, I think it's usually cleaner for two parties to agree that, at a
certain layer, they are using one particular protocol (e.g. "SOAP 1.1
with Attachments"). It's sort of unfortunate (error-prone, etc) if
they have to say "at this layer, we sometimes talk protocol X and
other times talk protocol Y, and the receiver of a message must
"sniff" it to see which protocol it conforms to. In my opinion, the
"SOAP 1.1 with Attachments" protocol spec ought to clearly state how
to transmit a SOAP message with zero attachments, rather than just
abdicating and saying that it can't handle it. Again, I don't think I
can tell what the protocol spec is actually saying.
