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Absolutely - only the simplest of requests with the lowest of
bandwidth requirements should use plain GET requests.

Beyond that you must use some form of detail encapsulation.  SOAP is
layer ontop of HTTP POST requests which is semi-standardized - ie how
a number is encoded is standardized, you still have to code what
parameters are going across the gap at both ends.  There is a lot of
hype about how standard SOAP is... you are still left with a lot of
work to do! :-)

Sometimes it is useful not to have too many dependancies on other
packages or outside software, ie, if you can get away with a simple
GET request in plain R, go for it, but as Duncan says, you need to
beware of character encoding.

s/

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