[Tad Murphy, on Sat, 16 Oct 1999]: :: And my opinion on SOAP is simply Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel. I :: read the specs and it looks an awful like XML-RPC or WDDX... not sure why :: you would want to use it... see http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$555 for Dave Winer's history of SOAP (Dave's original name for XML-RPC was SOAP).