OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC

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  • 1.  URL of an MSH

    Posted 08-14-2001 10:54
    Line 1002 in section 8.5.2.1.2 (of Message Services Specification,
    Version 1, 11 May 2001) discussses the TraceHeader/Sender/Location
    element, and says that it contains "the URL of the Message Service
    Handler".
    
    I was somewhat surprised when I read this.  This is the first time
    anybody implied that every MSH has a URL.  Is it even clear that all
    communication protocol addresses are URL's?  There has been discussion
    in the mail about using MQSeries as a communication protocol: what URL
    would you use in this case?
    
    (The MQSeries Java level actually does have a concept of URL's with
    the scheme "queue".  Examples: "queue://qmname/qname" or
    "queue://qmname/qname?prop1=val1,prop2=val2" where "qmname" is the
    name of the MQSeries queue manager.  As far as I know this is only at
    the Java level, not the core of MQSeries.  And I don't think "queue"
    is an official scheme -- there's no RFC for it, as per RFC2717.)