[MOBY-dev] Re: about service deregistation once again (a bug?)

[Martin Senger]

> >Nina explained that the agent would not go to a service that had been
> >registered without signatureURL, neither to a service that had been
> >registered with an empty signatureURL tag (such as
> ><signatureURL></signatureURL>).
> >  
> >
> Aren't these two statements identical?
>
   C'mon, of course, they are not.
   I can send a registration without any signatureURL tag, at all, or I
can send it with <signatureURL></signatureURL>.
   However, it does not matter anymore, see below...
 
> >However, the old-fashioned deregistration call will be rejected for
> >services that had been registered with an empty signatureURL, telling you
> >that the agent would take care about it. Which would not - see paragraph
> >above.
> >  
> >
> Unless it is not functioning correctly, the old fashioned deregisration 
> call WILL NOT be rejected for services that have been registered with an 
> empty signature URL.  Is that the bug you are reporting?
>
   Yes, it was... But not anymore... the bug was in my code that had not
properly printed signatureURL (so I thought that it was not there). Sorry
for that, it happens (at least one good output from this email exchange is
that I found that signatureURL was missing in the documentation of the
Service List Response Object - could you add it there?).

   Cheers,
   Martin

PS. I wonder if you got my email asking about RDF output...? (Perhaps it
was missed under the peaks of Rockies :-))
M.

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