RE: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?

["Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>]

> > Didier replies:
> > Can you explain to me how an HTTP POST brings more side effects than
an
> > HTTP GET.
> 
> GETs are supposed to be idempotent; caches are welcome to cache GET
> requests and service later requests to that resource without hitting
the 

Of course, most systems on the web today do NOT suppose that a GET is
idempotent, unless the URI has no "?" in it.