Re: How does Soap get through firewall?

[Naresh Agarwal]

Hi Rao   Soap messages are finally sent over HTTP (though not bound to HTTP only, but since HTTP is so pervasive that currently Soap is used over HTTP only)   Since corporate firewalls don't block the HTTP port, so Soap messages can easily come in.   Also  HTTP headers contains a mandatory Soap field called "SoapAction". Firewalls can scan through HTTP headers for this field to realize that this is a Soap messgage.   Moreover, everything in a Soap Payload is in text format, which could be very easily scanned and custom filters could be written to scan the Payload.   Regards, Naresh Agarwal   ----- Original Message ----- From: NagarajaRao To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: How does Soap get through firewall? Hi All,  I would like to know how soap messages get through firewall. Will someone give details about this please?   Thanks & Regards Nagaraja Rao