3 Protocol Details

The client side of this protocol is a pass-through. No additional timers or other states are 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 notify protocol clients of application-level faults by using SOAP faults. 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 by using HTTP Status Codes or by using SOAP faults as specified previously in this section.