June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a platform-independent protocol that uses XML to interact with web services, typically over HTTP. You can view the SOAP specification at www.w3.org/TR/soap/. Each request and response is packaged in a SOAP message—XML markup containing the information that a web service requires to process the message. SOAP messages are written in XML so that they’re computer readable, human readable and platform independent. Most firewalls—security barriers that restrict communication among networks—allow HTTP traffic to pass through, so that clients can browse the web by sending requests to and receiving responses from web servers. Thus, SOAP-based services can send and receive ...
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