Resolving endpoints

[Kevin Benson]

Hello Guy,
The registry much like cgi services will just return back the enpoint
loated in the <AccessURL> element.  Astrogrid added a small change
recently where if the endpoint/url ends in a "?wsdl" then it will look up
the endpoint from the WSDL (currently still on the client).  But the
standard and preferred way is just to grab the text inside the <AccessURL>
element.


Cheers,
Kevin

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Guy Rixon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> currently, CGI services store direct-access URLs in the registry and SOAP
> services store URLs that produce their WSDL. To use a SOAP service via the
> registry a client has to look up its WSDL URL, download the WSDL and parse out
> the endpoint address.
>
> Can someone remind me whether this situation is supposed to continue, or ware
> we going to allow direct-access URLs for SOAP services with WSDL URLs moved to
> a separate metadatum?
>
> If we're not supporting direct-access URLs for SOAP services, can we add a
> registry function to obtain such a URL from an IVORN by handling the WSDL
> inside the registry service? It seems wasteful to put the WSDL-handling code
> in every registry client instead of in a handful of registry
> service-implementations.
>
> Cheers,
> Guy
>
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