> > The document says that in general it is only safe to pipeline
> > GET/HEAD -
> Yes, I spotted that and came to the same conclusion.

> > That might
> > be difficult to implement with some web server tools, I reckon (they
> It wouldn't be hard to create a simple SOAP message which emulates the
> same thing i.e. the SOAP request takes a sequence of
> SearchRetrieveRequests the return is a sequence of
> SearchRetrieveResponses (the 1st being the response for the 1st request

I would much prefer this solution.
Especially as SOAP isn't necessarily carried over HTTP.

Rob

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