Tim “Co-Father of XML” Bray has written a clear, concise and understandable introduction to SOAP and the REST of the ways of talking to a Web server. The question is when it makes sense for a program to ask another program for information by sending it a URL or a more complex bundle of data. And this basic process is central to how we’re going to build Web services over the next few years.

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I make no pretense of knowing who’s right in the issues Tim raises.
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Note: Here’s Tim’s brief piece on why URI is right and URL is wrong.

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