Re: Meeting this week

[Mark Blunier <blunier@ocslink.com>]

Previously Jordan Bettis (jordanb@m-net.arbornet.org):

> How about XML? I keep hearing about it, but I don't really understand
> it. Is it like Microsoft's stupid 'SOAP' thing? Where other data is
> transported over HTTP? IMHO, that seems completely pointless. The point of
> TCP/IP is to provide a data-independent transport layer, if you create
> another over HTTP, then it's TCP/IP over HTTP over TCP/IP.
> 
> Bruce Schneider tore into SOAP a bit ago. He disapproved for obvious
> reasons.
> 
> Jordan Bettis.
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Yes, but it doesn't have to be over TCP/IP.  HTTP can go over IPX.  XML is
supposed to allow transmition of data for application specific
format, but do it in a human readable format.  Now that the latest
trend is to make stuff web enabled, this can make it easy.  It might
not be the best way.

Mark
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