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Re: [xml-dev] What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?
Michael Champion wrote:
> Mu. REST is a protocol, SOAP is a message format. <duck>
>
> Less pedantically, as people tend to use them in practice, WS-*
> builds a lot of capabilities (pretty much one capability for each WS
> spec) into the infrastructure. REST leaves them up to the application
> builder, except for those you get "for free" with the Web
> infrastructure such as HTTP authentication, HTTPS, etc. (If those
> don't work for you, e.g. you need end to end encryption rather than
> the point to point encryption that HTTPS provides, you are on your
> own).
>
XML Encryption works just as well for documents sent using REST as using
SOAP.
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