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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by bryanrasmussen on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:25PM (#27227501)
>JS Developers come in: so we can compile node.js to WASM and run that in the browser?! Yay!! Now we can have backend JS running in the browser alongside browser JS!

I remember back when SOAP still had the upperhand against REST but just barely the W3C published a document where they showed how you could implement HTTP over SOAP to basically mass ridicule. Unfortunately can't find it anymore, but it was pretty funny.

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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by shoo on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:43PM (#27228859)
searching "HTTP over SOAP" finds a few leads:

Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH

Erik Wilde, 2008, "HTTP over SOAP over HTTP": https://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2008/11/http-over-soap-ove...

William Vambenepe, 2008, "WS Resource Access working group starting at W3C": http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/436

Here are some of the specs:

Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer). This specification describes a general SOAP-based protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based resources. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Transfer/

Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT). This specification defines extensions to WS-Transfer. While its initial design focuses on management resource access its use is not necessarily limited to those situations. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WSRT/

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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by bryanrasmussen on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:51AM (#27230919)
it was the document referred to by Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?", I also remember the Tim Bray article as one of the top pieces of ridicule.
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