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Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI

Posted by kdawson on from the wash-your-mouth-out dept.

WMGarrison writes "US Patent 7453593 claims command-line processing by a web server of SOAP requests, resulting in XML responses, from and to a remote client. The HTTP Common Gateway Interface (CGI) operates precisely as described in Claim 1. If you POST a SOAP document and return an XHTML response or a SOAP document, this infringes Claim 2, since both XHTML and SOAP are XML languages. This patent thus claims to own the processing of SOAP documents by CGI programs."

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  1. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come on Slashdot... This is very old and stale news...Can't you find anything new and interesting to post?