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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by "Kenneth C. Wilner" <wi...@progress.com> on 2001/12/13 23:19:09 UTC

Maintaining context in SOAP

I apologize if this was recently asked, as I am new to this list.

What are the tradeoffs relative to using cookies (HTTPSession) vs. the SOAP
header for maintaining context on the server side?  The SOAP "spec" seems to
imply that SOAP headers should be used for this purpose.  The Apache SOAP
doc seems to be pushing using cookies.

I'm mainly concerned (I think) with interoperability issues with other
SOAP/Web Services platforms.

Thanks.

Ken