1. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) v1.1 CS-328 Dick Steflik

2. SOAP Lightweight protocol for exchanging information in a decentralized, distributed environment XML based consisting of three parts –an envelope that defines the framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it –a set of encoding rules for instances of application defined datatypes –a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses can be used in conjunction with othere protocols but is currently only defined for use in combination with HTTP Current Status - still underdevelopment ; W3C Note

3. SOAP Message Embedded in HTTP Request POST /StockQuote HTTP/1.1 Host: www.stockquoteserver.com Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: nnnn SOAPAction: "Some-URI" <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> DIS

4. SOAP Message Embedded in HTTP Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: nnnn <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> 34.5