From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-02-13T02:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to detect used protocol (SOAP, JSON, XML etc.)

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:22 AM, jeljer te Wies <jeljer@me.com> wrote:

> I am building an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) for a Content Management
> System.
>
> The esb (as you probably know) should be able to handle multiple
> protocols (JSON, XML, SOAP).
> So it has a tcp socket and it gets a "request".
>
> The problem is that I can't figure out how to check what protocol is
> used.

If all these "protocols" are being delivered over HTTP, you can look
at the "Accept" header. Read RFC2616 for details...

HTH,
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