RE: Content-free Header and Body elements

> OK, this is covered in[1]
>
> And no, you can't remove an empty Header element. My take is so
> that you can sign it and say 'It is empty, there were no headers
> sent with this message'

Does Rule #1 prevent an intermediary from adding <S:Header/> if none
is present?  That would be pinning an awful lot on the meaning of
"preserved"; perhaps "preserved unmodified" was what was really meant?

> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapinterminfoset

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