Re: Latest DRAFT of SMTP bindings

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

Prasad,

Please see below.

Cheers,

Chris

Prasad Yendluri wrote:
<snip/>
> 
> > As for SOAP-Action, the discussion was that it was up to the
> > two parties to determine what value should be used, that ebXML
> > would make NO claim as to a required value for SOAP-Action.
> 
> The difficulty was, we never got the issues list sent to us. So, this is what
> Dick and I thought was good to have for SOAP-Action. However, an alternate is to
> have no value (like BizTalk). This header still needs to be present however, as
> it is required by the SOAP specification.

We specify no value, I don't think that we specify a value of nil.

> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
> Regards, Prasad
> 
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Dick Brooks wrote:
> > >
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > > I thought that we discussed the issue of Content-Transfer-Encoding
> > > > and agreed that it would apply at the transport level, not the MSH
> > > > level and apply to the entire ebXML Message (the Message Package)
> > > > not just selected body parts.
> > >
> > > My recollection of the discussion was whether to encode at the
> > > element level (using SOAP encoding specified in chapter 5, SOAP-ENC:base64)
> > > or the body part level. My meeting notes indicate that we agreed to encode
> > > at the body part level only those body parts that require encoding.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In addition, I thought that the issue of SOAP-Action was to be
> > > > something agreed by the parties, that we would NOT impose a
> > > > value for SOAP-Action.
> > > >
> > >
> > > My understanding is that SOAP-Action would be used for dispatching purposes
> > > as a substitute for the MIME "type" parameter, which now contains a
> > > generic "text/xml" identifier.
> > >
> > > Dick Brooks
> > > Group 8760
> > > 110 12th Street North
> > > Birmingham, AL 35203
> > > dick@8760.com
> > > 205-250-8053
> > > Fax: 205-250-8057
> > > http://www.8760.com/
> > >
> > > InsideAgent - Empowering e-commerce solutions
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: christopher ferris [mailto:chris.ferris@east.sun.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:20 AM
> > > > To: Dick Brooks
> > > > Cc: Ebxml
> > > > Subject: Re: Latest DRAFT of SMTP bindings
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dick,
> > > >
> > > > I thought that we discussed the issue of Content-Transfer-Encoding
> > > > and agreed that it would apply at the transport level, not the MSH
> > > > level and apply to the entire ebXML Message (the Message Package)
> > > > not just selected body parts.
> > > >
> > > > In addition, I thought that the issue of SOAP-Action was to be
> > > > something agreed by the parties, that we would NOT impose a
> > > > value for SOAP-Action.
> > > >
> > > > Other than these comments, looks good!
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > > Dick Brooks wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is what Prasad and I came up with for SMTP bindings, let
> > > > us know what
> > > > > you think.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't have a pdf creator so I'm providing the MS word
> > > > version. Maybe one
> > > > > of those kind individuals (maw?)
> > > > > with a pdf converter will redistribute a pdf version of the doc.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Dick Brooks
> > > > > Group 8760
> > > > > 110 12th Street North
> > > > > Birmingham, AL 35203
> > > > > dick@8760.com
> > > > > 205-250-8053
> > > > > Fax: 205-250-8057
> > > > > http://www.8760.com/
> > > > >
> > > > > InsideAgent - Empowering e-commerce solutions
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > >                                       Name:
> > > > ebXMLTransportBindings-SMTP.doc
> > > > >    ebXMLTransportBindings-SMTP.doc    Type: Winword File
> > > > (application/msword)
> > > > >                                   Encoding: BASE64
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