what is soap over http
- SOAP is a communication protocol that specifies the format for sending messages. RPC and CORBA has compatibility and security issues, whereas HTTP is compatible with all the browsers. Now that HTTP communicates over TCP/IP. A SOAP method is an HTTP request/HTTP response that compiles with the SOAP encoding rules. using SOAP, a protocol submitted to the W3C data can be enclosed in XML and transmitted using any number of Internet Protocols.