>From "Nick Lee" <nlee64 at home.com>

>> What benefit does SOAP have not provided by existing client interfaces to
>> Freenet?
>>
>
>I knew this one is coming ... =)
>
>... and I know I don't have an answer for it, except it will almost
>certainly be a more popular standard than XML-RPC (and probably FCP =). With
>only "closed" communication, "standard" isn't really a benefit anyway,
>especially if something's already in place. In other words, I really don't
>have an answer for Ben's question. And I have no objection against staying
>with FCP and XML-RPC.
>
>I suggested WSDL/SOAP just to see what the reaction is from the Freenet
>community. For the purpose of PCOS, it really doesn't matter what protocol I
>use. Since the reaction isn't all that good, I guess I'll just have to
>choose between FCP and XML-RPC.

You can go ahead and implement a SOAP interface on top of FCP or XML-RPC (or 
fproxy, for that matter), if that's what you want to use for your project.  
Other SOAP hackers, if any, would probably appreciate it.

>And I guess Ben misunderstood what I meant ...

>> Remote access to Freenet really isn't meaningful, you access
>> Freenet remotely
>> by running a node.

>What if you access Freenet remotely WITHOUT running a node? That's what I
>meant by remote access, which I argued is bad for Freenet, which Brandon
>seemed to agree with ... Now, some reply to Brandon ...

You could, there's just no reason to.  It would be like, for example, using X 
or NT Terminal to run a browser on the http server you're accessing.  Unless 
you have to do it for compatibility or debugging reasons or something, it 
would be pointless (and slow).

--
Benjamin Coates


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