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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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