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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. They came for SOAP... by istartedi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They came for SOAP and I said nothing, because it was a bloated ugly PoS.

    Then they cam for XML and I said nothing because I prefer JSON.

    Then they came for JSON and I said nothing because they gave me a bonus.

    Then they came for Linux and I said nothing because I was able to retire on that bonus and no longer cared about IT.

    Then I had a mild heart attack and on the way to the hospital Microsoft's MyShock defibrelator control software crashed.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?