3 Protocol Details

The client side of this protocol is simply a pass-through. That is, no additional timers or other state is required on the client side of this protocol. Calls made by the higher-layer protocol or application are passed directly to the transport, and the results returned by the transport are passed directly back to the higher-layer protocol or application.

Except where specified, protocol clients SHOULD interpret HTTP status codes returned by the protocol server as specified in [RFC2616], section 10.

This protocol allows protocol servers to notify protocol clients of application-level faults using SOAP faults. This protocol allows protocol servers to provide additional details for SOAP faults by including either a detail element as specified in [SOAP1.1] section 4.4, or a Detail element as specified in [SOAP1.2-1/2007] section 5.4.5, which conforms to the XML schema of the SOAPFaultDetails complex type specified in section 2.2.4.20. Except where specified, these SOAP faults are not significant for interoperability, and protocol clients can interpret them in an implementation-specific manner.

This protocol allows protocol servers to perform implementation-specific authorization checks and notify protocol clients of authorization faults either using HTTP status codes or using SOAP faults as specified previously in this section.