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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ised
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Oct 4 09:57:12 2013
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-10-04 09:33, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The design of WSDL and SOAP is entirely due to the need to impedance
> match COM to HTTP.
That is fairly horrifying, as COM was designed for a single threaded
environment, and becomes and incomprehensible and extraordinarily
inefficient security hole in a multi threaded environment.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-10-04 09:33, Phillip
Hallam-Baker wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The design of WSDL and SOAP is entirely due to the
need to impedance match COM to HTTP.</div>
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That is fairly horrifying, as COM was designed for a single threaded
environment, and becomes and incomprehensible and extraordinarily
inefficient security hole in a multi threaded environment.<br>
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