Re: [xml-dev] Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

> Or to put it differently, HTTP is powerful enough to be useful but
> limited enough to make it hard for hackers to attack you with.  It
> is an inefficient use of cheap and abundant computer resources, but
> who cares, if it saves expensive and scarce human resources?

That's pretty much it.

The assumption here is that it really is easier to get HTTP-based 
applications deployed (especially with micro-servers etc.) than it is 
to get an alternate protocol deployed... and that it will stay that 
way.