"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>
>...
>
> If you compare them directly, yes.
>
> If you ask whether HTTP is an implementation of RPC, a protocol built on
> RPC, no. I'm not talking about hypertext - I'm talking about the
> foundations on which the HTTP protocol is itself built. I find those
> foundations to look suspiciously related to RPC, however loud the
> denials of their fans.
There is a difference between saying that HTTP is related to RPC and
saying that HTTP is an RPC protocol like XML-RPC or SOAP-RPC.
Paul Prescod
