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At 01:25 PM 3/7/00 -0500, Tom Scola wrote: >Pardon my naïveté, but I'm having a problem understanding the need for >so-called "lightweight" protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP in the first >place. If I wanted to write a distributed XML application I can: > >1. Open a socket to a remote system >2. Authenticate the connection >3. Send and receive XML-encoded data over the socket > >Step 1 requires about 10-20 lines of C code ... >What could be easier than "send" and "recv"? Er. lots of things. Exchanging messages with a web server via HTTP is commonly regarded as substantially easier than dealing with low-level socket library. Furthermore, writing your application dispatch in the context of an existing web server is commonly regarded as substantially easier than setting up a connection management & dispatch facility yourself. And I agree that in the general case, it's weird that being able to penetrate firewalls is seen as a benefit, but that's life. -Tim *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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