1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

For message transport, this protocol uses the HTTP/1.0 protocol, as described in [RFC1945], the HTTP/1.1 protocol, as described in [RFC2616], or the Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) protocol, as described in [RFC2818].

The following diagram shows the underlying messaging and transport stack used by the protocol:

This protocol in relation to other protocols

Figure 1: This protocol in relation to other protocols

This protocol is intended to be used as a prerequisite to calling the Forms Services Design and Activation Web Service Protocol, as specified in [MS-FSDAP].