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SOAP 1.1 One-way HTTP Binding &w3c-designation-part2; &status; &draft.day; &draft.month; &draft.year; David Orchard BEA Systems

SOAP Version 1.1 provides an HTTP binding for exchanging a request and a response. This binding provides a "one-way" refinement that enables the HTTP response body to be empty.

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Introduction

The SOAP 1.1 One-way Binding (this document) defines modification to the SOAP 1.1 HTTP Binding to support sending a message without a SOAP response, aka a one-way message.

Notational Conventions

The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 .

With the exception of examples and sections explicitly marked as "Non-Normative", all parts of this specification are normative.

 SOAP 1.1 One-way HTTP Binding

This SOAP 1.1 One-way HTTP binding can be used for sending one-way messages. For such messages, the HTTP response MUST be a 202 status code and an empty HTTP body, aka no SOAP envelope. Any SOAP Envelope that is a response MUST be sent using a separate connection.

 References Normative References W3C Note "Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1", Don Box, David Ehnebuske, Gopal Kakivaya, Andrew Layman, Noah Mendelsohn, Henrik Nielsen, Satish Thatte, Dave Winer, 8 May 2000. IETF "RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. C. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee, January 1997. IETF "RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", S. Bradner, March 1997. Informative References W3C Proposed Recommendation "SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer", Nilo Mitra, 24 June 2003 W3C Proposed Recommendation "SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework", Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Noah Mendelsohn, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, 24 June 2003 W3C Proposed Recommendation "SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts Framework", Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Noah Mendelsohn, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, 24 June 2003 IETF "RFC 3902: The 'application/soap+xml' media type", M. Baker, M. Nottingham, September, 2004. IETF "RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, August 1998. Change Log