RE: Cone Search

We will soon build a WSDL definition, based on the profile, at this point only describing the GET protocol. But indeed this is the plan... eventually. Hopefully in the not too distant future. Also, I would like to suggest some changes in the service:
(1) break out the email field
(2) add VERB=0, meaning just a count of objects

Cheers, Alex

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From: Clive Page [mailto:cgp-at-star.le.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:09 AM To: votable-at-us-vo.org
Subject: Re: Cone Search

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:

> I was just wondering what was the rationale for the choice of the
parameter
> names in the http://skyserver.pha.jhu.edu/VOConeProfile/
> demo service ?

I share your concern over the apparent choice of CGI parameter names that are incompatible with the established (if ad hoc) standard of ASU, without any obvious reason.

But an even greater concern is this appears to be a web service and not a Web Service. Wouldn't it be better to move on from 20th century technology and do it with SOAP? Then WSDL could be used to publish the details of the service, and maybe UDDI (or something like it) to register them.

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