[Zope-dev] Re: SOAP Support for ZOPE

[Lennart Regebro]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> So the suggestion: I think we'd be in a better place if we:
> 
>   - Fix the publisher to at least recognize a SOAP request vs.
>     an xml-rpc request
> 
>   - Provide some kind of 'registration hook' so that a Product
>     can register with the publisher to handle SOAP requests
> 
>   - Have the publisher hand off where appropriate to a registered
>     SOAP handler if installed, else return an HTTP NotImplemented
>     or similar if there is no SOAP handler
> 
>   - Apply the KISS rule: only one product can register to the be
>     the SOAP handler, and resist turning this into any kind of
>     grand-unified-pluggable-publisher architecture ;)
> 
> This would be minimally disruptive to the Zope core, while enabling
> people interested in SOAP to evolve different solutions without
> everybody having to buy into a particular approach or implementation
> right now.

A little late, but +1 anyway.

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