Three cheers for GET services

[Pierre Fernique]

Roy Williams wrote:
> Three cheers for GET services
> 
> (This subject line is just to stir up the SOAP fundamentalists). As I start
> moving to the world of SOAP, I want to know how to do all the nifty things I
> used to be able to do with GET.

(...)

> 
> People know and trust the GET method. Crossing the bridge to SOAP should be
> possible by gradual steps.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> http://virtualsky.org/servlet/Page?F=1&RA=230&DE=-.20000&Exp=Go+Here&T=4&P=11&S=11&X=1687&Y=2043&W=4&Z=-1&M=1


Hi all,

I'm totally sharing these three cheers for GET services.

The GET service is not the ultimate solution but it has some properties 
allowing people to connect services with very few 
interactions/standardizations/agreements/interfaces between the 
providers and the clients. In my mind, this propertie is one key of an 
"opened" interoperability and certainly one reason of the Web success.

My own example built on the Roy's example. From a "get" service to 
another "get" service by a simple cut-and-paste.

http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?script=get+Local%28http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cacr.caltech.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2FVSmakefits%3FT%3D4%26S%3D10%26P%3D11%26X%3D3372%26Y%3D4087%26W%3D4%2CVirtual+Sky%2CSloan+Digital+Sky+Survey%29%3Bsync%3Bget+simbad%3Bget+VizieR%28USNO2%29%3B

Regards,
Pierre