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.

This protocol allows protocol servers to perform implementation-specific authorization checks and to notify protocol clients of authorization faults by using either HTTP status codes or SOAP faults. Except where specified otherwise, protocol clients SHOULD interpret HTTP status codes as specified in [RFC2616] section 10. This protocol allows protocol servers to notify protocol clients of application-level faults by using SOAP faults. Except where specified otherwise, these SOAP faults are not significant for interoperability, and protocol clients can interpret them in an implementation-specific manner.