(2002-02-26) d

Don Box on the limitations of HTTP (for RPC). I think this is why SOAP supports other transport protocols in addition to HTTP. And why there are things like MIME-RPC.

Also, I wonder whether Don knows that by taking a job for Microsoft he's become "tainted meat". Who can read an article like this without thinking "Microsoft's looking for an excuse to make proprietary extensions to HTTP so they can fuck over the rest of us"?