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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> This is strange, SOAP as been created and pushed by Microsoft. SOAP
> is XML plus transport layer (one used a lot is HTTP). Of course it
> is an overhead for an addition style webservices...

One problem with HTTP as transport layer is that processing a SOAP
request can cost a lot of time, during which the TCP connection has to
be kept open.  People fear that this might kill performance.

Anyway, I consider SOAP extremely annoying from a security
perspective---the HTTP transport layer was chosen with the purpose to
tunnel existing firewalls.