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Bug 8291 - MEX: editorial: what is an "explicit request for metadata"?
Summary: MEX: editorial: what is an "explicit request for metadata"?
Status: CLOSED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: WS-Resource Access
Classification: Unclassified
Component: MetadataExchange (show other bugs)
Version: FPWD
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
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Keywords: hasProposal
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Reported: 2009-11-13 23:37 UTC by Gilbert Pilz
Modified: 2010-03-17 11:27 UTC (History)
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Description Gilbert Pilz 2009-11-13 23:37:17 UTC 
Section 2.2 "Example" contains the following text right before Example 2-3:

"While the WS-Policy of the Web service endpoint could be retrieved using a WS-Transfer Get request directed to the endpoint identified by the mex:MetadataReference element in lines 74-78 of Example 2-2, some endpoints MAY choose to support explicit request for metadata."

One has to presume that an "explicit request for metadata" involves the use of the GetMetadata operation, but the spec doesn't come right out and say that.

Proposal:

"While the WS-Policy of the Web service endpoint could be retrieved using a WS-Transfer Get request directed to the endpoint identified by the mex:MetadataReference element in lines 74-78 of Example 2-2, some endpoints MAY support explicit requests for metadata via the GetMetadata operation."
Comment 1 Robert Freund 2009-12-03 12:52:30 UTC 
2009-12-01 resolved as proposed