Re: "Binary XML" proposals

[Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Steinar Bang wrote:

> >>>>> "Al B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com>:
> 
> > ...but if you're going to use TCP for RPCs, for God's sake don't use
> > port 80; that's for transferring hypertext. We have 65,000 or so
> > port numbers to choose from. If we use different port numbers for
> > different things, firewall administrators can make networks secure
> > by controlling what does and doesn't get let through.
> 
> Ah, but SOAP using port 80 is a _feature_, you know.  It allows SOAP
> to _tunnel_ through the firewall.

Some firewall administrators might call that "circumvention" :-)

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