I would not say that SOAP is designed to circumvent firewalls--it is
intended as a standard for data representation and function calls to
programatically access remote services. For it's intended purpose, it is a
good standard.
For most purposes, though, it is not the sort of thing you would want to be
wide open. If you have SOAP services on one of you DMZ servers, you may
only want specific outsiders to access them.
Of course, if your firewall passes SSL it would be possible to send
encrypted SOAP and the firwall admin would not be able to filter it. This
is not a problem with SOAP, you could really pass anything this way.
CB
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