[Nsi-wg] Some questions/remarks on the v2 connection wsdl

[Henrik Thostrup Jensen]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, John MacAuley wrote:

> Ah yes, but "Basic Profile Version 1.1" clause "R1127 A RECEIVER MUST NOT rely on the value of
> the SOAPAction HTTP header to correctly process the message." was put in because in SOAP 1.2 the
> SOAP action dependency was removed.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose between 
:-).

Is there a decisions on what version of SOAP the NSI protocol should use?

> The additional statement from the profile document states
> "SOAPAction is purely a hint to processors. All vital information 
> regarding the intent of a message is carried in soap:Envelope."
>
> Most new SOAP specifications no longer use the SOAP action field.  I had 
> just went through the pain of doing Microsoft integration and put it in 
> for better NSI compatibility with MS.

Interesting. OpenNSA will break without it, but it should not be difficult 
to change (just annoying).


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet