[Webdev] PHP & SOAP

[Dave O Connor]

Someone called Donncha O Caoimh said on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:57:19AM +0000:
> So far as I can tell, and I haven't managed to finish reading a page
> about SOAP yet(something else always comes up), it's just another way of
> implementing remote procedure calls over HTTP, port 80.
> Many people don't like the idea, as HTTP was never meant to do stuff
> like this in the first place but it has the backing of all the big
> players in industry.
> 
> Simply put, you send XML to a HTTP server, with a special Content-type
> of "application/soap" or similar. The HTTP server recognises the
> Content-type. 
> Every soap request has an envelope and a message, terminology might be
> wrong, but bear with me. The server parses the envelope and figures out
> what method to call. The message then contains the parameters to that
> method. At least this is what I picked up from a quick talk with Dermot
> last night. No doubt he can fill us in, in more detail.
> 
I was under the impression that the SOAP envelope specified a location for the
message within the SOAP message (i.e. it can be used to route the message to a
different SOAP server etc.)

	- DoC