Re: New example for appendix

[dick@8760.com]

Gait,

The examples are generated using a software program available to me, which
automatically produces the headers you refer to. These can certainly be removed
from the example, however it's important to point out the HTTP 1.1 spec states
the following in section 14.43, regarding the User-Agent header:

"User agents SHOULD include this field with  requests."

That is the reason you see it present in the example.

With regard to the Connection header, the HTTP 1.1 spec indicates this header is
used to inform a receiver to close a connection, this header may be needed by
the reliable messaging folks in their HTTP bindings.

The examples are provided to assist people in understanding the packaging and
header portions of the MS specification and are not intended to be "formal
specifications".   The TR&P team is planning to  provide formal, standard HTTP
bindings and the examples will be updated to reflect the formal standard at that
time. Anything related to HTTP bindings in the current spec, especially the
items you mentioned, should be considered  "non-normative".

Regards,

Dick Brooks
----- Original Message -----
From: Gait Boxman <gait.boxman@tie.nl>
To: Dick Brooks <dick@8760.com>; <ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: New example for appendix


> Dick,
> this example is only valid for a proxy, HTTP/1.0 does not allow absolute
> URI's being sent to HTTP servers directly (it is allowed for HTTP/1.1).
> Furthermore, the Connection and User-Agent lines are neither required, nor
> illustrative for the purposes of the specification. Could you remove those?
>
> Thnx, Gait.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Brooks" <dick@8760.com>
> To: "Ebxml" <ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org>
> Cc: <dick@8760.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:16 AM
> Subject: New example for appendix
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I've reproduced a sample binding to HTTP (attached) for the appendix using
> > the latest and greatest DTD provided by Chris Ferris. This example is
> based
> > on GCI data provided by Melanie, hopefully the POC folks will find this
> > useful.
> >
> > It became abundantly clear while I was building this example there is
> still
> > a good deal of "cleanup" remaining in the MS spec v0.21. For example, the
> > charset and version parameters are no longer used on the ebXML header
> > envelope, but they still appear in the spec. The example matches the spec,
> > which needs to change.
> >
> >
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