Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Amazon appears to be talking about SOAP. 
> 
> SOAP, conceptually, is pretty simple. You take the arguments to the 
> procedure and wrap them up in XML. You put the function you're calling 
> into the headers. You post the message (with appropriate crypto 
> signatures if necessary) to the appropriate URL. You get back from the 
> web server your answer, probably again wrapped up in XML.

So... you issue a command, and you receive a reply? And these are both 
formatted as XML?

Is the reply necessarily immediate?

If I'm understanding this correctly, that means that you can make Amazon 
start or stop a virtual server by sending a lump of XML to it over HTTP. 
Is that about right?

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